Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 7
Not a sound is to be heard, save when they give vent to a wonderful imitation of the lonely call of the coyote.
Who acts: scouts · What happens: hear, save, give, imitate, call · To what, where: sound, vent, wonderful imitation, lonely call, coyote · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (scouts), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 sound | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sound | det |
| 3 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | aux:pass |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 heard | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 heard | aux:pass |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 save | punct |
| 9 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 heard | conj |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 give | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 give | nsubj |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | advcl |
| 13 | vent | vent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 imitation | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 imitation | det |
| 16 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 imitation | amod |
| 17 | imitation | imitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 call | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 call | det |
| 20 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 call | amod |
| 21 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 imitation | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 coyote | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 coyote | det |
| 24 | coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 call | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · passive | a sound | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | save | infinitive | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | give | present | scouts = scout | vent | a wonderful imitation of the lonely call of the coyote | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent vent=Theme to imitation=Recipient | |||
| 4 | imitate | the lonely call of the coyote | nom imitation «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | call | the coyote | nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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