Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 144
First her voice grew strong, then she popped out of bed, then she was flashing through the room more merry and impudent than ever.
Who acts: voice, clapping · What happens: grow, pop out, flash · To what, where: bed, room
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 (voice, 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 grew | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 voice | nmod:poss |
| 3 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grew | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 popped | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 popped | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 popped | nsubj |
| 9 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 popped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flashing | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 flashing | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 flashing | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 flashing | aux |
| 17 | flashing | flash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 grew | advcl |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 room | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 room | det |
| 20 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flashing | obl |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 merry | advmod |
| 22 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 flashing | advcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 impudent | cc |
| 24 | impudent | impudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 merry | conj |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 ever | case |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 impudent | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | clapping's voice | first, strong property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pop out | past | clapping | bed | then | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient | |||
| 3 | flash | past · progressive | clapping | the room | then | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through room=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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