Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 127
His head almost filled the fourth wall of her little room as he knelt near her in distress.
Who acts: head, Tink · What happens: fill, kneel · To what, where: fourth wall, distress
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 (head, Tink), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 head | nmod:poss |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | nsubj |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 4 filled | advmod |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wall | det |
| 6 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 wall | amod |
| 7 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 room | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 room | nmod:poss |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 room | amod |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wall | nmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 knelt | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 knelt | nsubj |
| 14 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | advcl |
| 15 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 knelt | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 distress | case |
| 18 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knelt | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | Tink's head | the fourth wall of head's little room | almost property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wall=Patient | |||
| 2 | kneel | past | Tink | distress | near head | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near she=Location |
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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