Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 66
Twice Smee beat upon the instrument, and then stopped to listen gleefully.
Who acts: Smee · What happens: beat, stop, listen · To what, where: instrument
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 (Smee), 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 | Twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 beat | advmod |
| 2 | Smee | Smee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 beat | nsubj |
| 3 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 instrument | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 instrument | det |
| 6 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beat | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stopped | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stopped | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 stopped | advmod |
| 10 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 beat | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 listen | mark |
| 12 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 stopped | xcomp |
| 13 | gleefully | gleefully | ADV | _ | 12 listen | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | past | Smee | the instrument | twice property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon instrument=Location | |||
| 2 | stop | past | Smee not said here | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | listen | to-infinitive | Smee not said here | gleefully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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