Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 36
Then, silently, he let himself go into the unknown.
Who acts: Hook · What happens: let, go · To what, where: Hook, unknown
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 let | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 6 let | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 silently | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 let | nsubj |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 unknown | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 unknown | det |
| 11 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 go | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | Hook | Hook | then | silently property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | go | infinitive | Hook not said here | the unknown | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into unknown=Initial_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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