Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 32
Was that boy asleep, or did he stand waiting at the foot of Slightly’s tree, with his dagger in his hand?
Who acts: boy, thing · What happens: be, stand, wait · To what, where: foot
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 (boy, thing), 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asleep | cop |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 asleep | mark |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asleep | nsubj |
| 4 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stand | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 stand | cc |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stand | aux |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stand | nsubj |
| 9 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asleep | conj |
| 10 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 stand | xcomp |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 foot | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 foot | det |
| 13 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waiting | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 15 | Slightly | Slightly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 tree | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Slightly | case |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 foot | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dagger | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 dagger | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 dagger | nmod:poss |
| 21 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stand | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 hand | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hand | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dagger | nmod |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 asleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | boy | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past · do-support | thing | with thing's dagger in thing's hand | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | thing not said here | the foot of Slightly's tree | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=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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