Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 143
The clapping stopped suddenly; as if countless mothers had rushed to their nurseries to see what on earth was happening; but already Tink was saved.
Who acts: clapping · What happens: stop, rush, see, happen, save · To what, where: countless mothers, nurseries, earth, Tink
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 (clapping), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 clapping | det |
| 2 | clapping | clapping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 stopped | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 rushed | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 rushed | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 rushed | mark |
| 8 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mothers | amod |
| 9 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rushed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rushed | aux |
| 11 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stopped | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 nurseries | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 nurseries | nmod:poss |
| 14 | nurseries | nursery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rushed | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 rushed | advcl |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 see | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 earth | case |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 happening | obl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 happening | aux |
| 21 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 saved | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 saved | cc |
| 24 | already | already | ADV | _ | 25 Tink | advmod |
| 25 | Tink | Tink | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 saved | aux:pass |
| 27 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stopped | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the clapping | suddenly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | rush a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | countless mothers | mothers's nurseries | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to nursery=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | happen | past · progressive | earth | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on earth=Location | |||||
| 5 | save | past · passive | Tink | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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