Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 168
They gazed blankly at him, their sticks over their backs, and on each stick a bundle.
Who acts: others · What happens: gaze · To what, where: sticks, stick
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gazed | nsubj |
| 2 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | blankly | blankly | ADV | _ | 2 gazed | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gazed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sticks | punct |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sticks | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gazed | obl |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 backs | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 backs | nmod:poss |
| 11 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sticks | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stick | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stick | cc |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 stick | case |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 stick | det |
| 16 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gazed | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bundle | det |
| 18 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stick | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | others = other | others's sticks over others's backs | each stick and a bundle | at departure; blankly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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