Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 54
He ran his greedy eyes over them, searching for the thinnest ones.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: run, search · To what, where: greedy eyes
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ran | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 searching | punct |
| 9 | searching | search | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 ran | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 ones | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ones | det |
| 12 | thinnest | thin | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 ones | amod |
| 13 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 searching | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Peter | Peter's greedy eyes | over eyes = eye | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent eye=Theme over they=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | search | gerund | Peter not said here | for the thinnest ones | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for one=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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