Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 129
She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it.
Who acts: head, tears · What happens: like, put out, let, run · To what, where: tears, beautiful finger, finger
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, tears), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 liked | nsubj |
| 2 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 tears | nmod:poss |
| 4 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 liked | obj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 2 liked | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 put | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | nsubj |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 liked | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 put | compound:prt |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 finger | nmod:poss |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 finger | amod |
| 13 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 put | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 run | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 liked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past | head | Tink's tears | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put out | past | head | head's beautiful finger | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | head not said here | tears = tear | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | run | infinitive | tears = tear not said here | finger | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory |
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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