Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 136
Tink sat up in bed almost briskly to listen to her fate.
Who acts: Tink, girl · What happens: sit up, listen, fate · To what, where: bed
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 (Tink, girl), 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 | Tink | Tink | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 sat | compound:prt |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 bed | case |
| 5 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 briskly | advmod |
| 7 | briskly | briskly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sat | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 listen | mark |
| 9 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 briskly | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 fate | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fate | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 listen | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit up | past | Tink | bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | ||||
| 2 | listen | to-infinitive | Tink not said here | to girl's fate | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to fate=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fate | girl | nom fate «event 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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