Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 35
He was a brave man, but for a moment he had to stop there and wipe his brow, which was dripping like a candle.
Who acts: Hook, brow · What happens: be, have, stop, wipe, drip · To what, where: brave man, brow
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 (Hook, brow), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 man | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 moment | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 moment | det |
| 10 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 stop | mark |
| 14 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 had | xcomp |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 stop | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wipe | cc |
| 17 | wipe | wipe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 stop | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brow | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wipe | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dripping | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 dripping | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dripping | aux |
| 23 | dripping | drip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 brow | acl |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 candle | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 candle | det |
| 26 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dripping | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Hook | a brave man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Hook | moment | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stop | to-infinitive | Hook not said here | there | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | wipe | infinitive | Hook not said here | Hook's brow | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent brow=Source | ||||
| 5 | drip | past · progressive | Hook's brow | like a candle | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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