Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 125
Her wings would scarcely carry her now, but in reply she alighted on his shoulder and gave his nose a loving bite.
Who acts: wings, rage · What happens: carry, alight, give · To what, where: rage, reply, nose
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wings, rage), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wings | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 carry | aux |
| 4 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 5 carry | advmod |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carry | obj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 carry | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 alighted | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 alighted | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 reply | case |
| 11 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 alighted | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 alighted | nsubj |
| 13 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 carry | parataxis |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 shoulder | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 alighted | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 alighted | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 nose | nmod:poss |
| 20 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bite | det |
| 22 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bite | amod |
| 23 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | would | rage's wings | rage | now | scarcely property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||
| 2 | alight | participle | rage | reply | on Tink's shoulder | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give | past | rage not said here | Tink's nose | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent nose=Recipient bite=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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