Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 52
While Peter lived, the tortured man felt that he was a lion in a cage into which a sparrow had come.
Who acts: Peter, tortured man, sparrow · What happens: live, torture, feel, be, come · To what, where: lion, cage
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 (Peter, tortured man, sparrow), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 lived | mark |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 felt | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | tortured | torture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 felt | nsubj |
| 8 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 lion | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lion | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lion | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lion | det |
| 13 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 felt | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cage | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cage | det |
| 16 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lion | nmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 come | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sparrow | det |
| 20 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 cage | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Peter | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | torture | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | feel | past | the tortured man | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | Peter | a lion | a cage | tree rules | |||
| 5 | come | past · perfect | a sparrow | a cage | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into which=Initial_Location |
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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