Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 128
Every moment her light was growing fainter; and he knew that if it went out she would be no more.
Who acts: light, moment, fainter, head · What happens: grow, know, go out, not be, light · To what, where: fainter
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 (light, moment, fainter, head), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knew | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 light | nmod:poss |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 growing | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 growing | aux |
| 6 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 moment | acl:relcl |
| 7 | fainter | fainter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 growing | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 knew | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 went | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 went | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 knew | ccomp |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 more | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 more | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 more | cop |
| 20 | no | no | ADV | _ | 21 more | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 went | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · progressive | head's light | fainter | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fainter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | every moment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go out a condition, not said to happen | past | fainter | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not is | would | head | more property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | light | head | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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