Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 70
They smirked at each other and rubbed their hands.
Who acts: feelings · What happens: smirk, rub · To what, where: each, hands
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 (feelings), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 smirked | nsubj |
| 2 | smirked | smirk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 each | case |
| 4 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 2 smirked | obl |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 each | fixed |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rubbed | cc |
| 7 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 smirked | conj |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hands | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rubbed | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 smirked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smirk | past | feelings = feeling | each | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rub | past | feelings = feeling not said here | feelings's hands | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=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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