Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 147

The moon was riding in a cloudy heaven when Peter rose from his tree, begirt with weapons and wearing little else, to set out upon his perilous quest.

Who acts: moon, Peter · What happens: ride, rise, wear, set out, quest · To what, where: cloudy heaven, tree, little

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 (moon, Peter), 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 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 riding	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 riding	aux
4	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 heaven	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 heaven	det
7	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heaven	amod
8	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 riding	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 rose	advmod
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 rose	nsubj
11	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 riding	advcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tree	nmod:poss
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rose	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 begirt	punct
16	begirt	begirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 weapons	case
18	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 begirt	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wearing	cc
20	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 riding	conj
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wearing	obj
22	else	else	ADV	_	20 wearing	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 set	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	25 set	mark
25	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 riding	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 set	compound:prt
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 quest	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 quest	nmod:poss
29	perilous	perilous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 quest	amod
30	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 set	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 riding	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	past · progressive	the moon		a cloudy heaven		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	rise	past	Peter		Peter's tree and begirt with weapons		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial_Location
3	wear	gerund	the moon not said here	little		else property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent little=Source
4	set out	to-infinitive	the moon not said here			upon Peter's perilous quest	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	quest		Peter				nom quest «cognition intransitive»: 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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