Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 21
Fell from their eyes then the film through which they had looked at victory.
Who acts: masters · What happens: look
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (masters), 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 | Fell | fell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 film | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 eyes | case |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fell | nmod |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 film | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 film | det |
| 7 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 looked | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 looked | aux |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 film | acl:relcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 victory | case |
| 14 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 film | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · perfect | masters = master | at victory; through the film | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through which=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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