Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 70
So up they flew to their mummy and daddy, and pen cannot describe the happy scene, over which we draw a veil.”
Who acts: descendants, pen, we · What happens: fly, not describe, draw · To what, where: happy scene, veil
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 (descendants, pen, we), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 flew | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mummy | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mummy | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mummy | mummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 daddy | cc |
| 9 | daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mummy | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 describe | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 describe | cc |
| 12 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 describe | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 describe | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 describe | advmod |
| 15 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 flew | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 scene | det |
| 17 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 scene | amod |
| 18 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 describe | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 draw | punct |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 draw | obl |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 draw | nsubj |
| 23 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 describe | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 veil | det |
| 25 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 draw | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | descendants = descendant | to descendants's mummy and daddy result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mummy=Result | ||||
| 2 | not describe | can | pen | the happy scene | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent scene=Theme | ||||
| 3 | draw | present | we | a veil | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=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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