Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 37
He arrived unmolested at the foot of the shaft, and stood still again, biting at his breath, which had almost left him.
Who acts: Hook · What happens: arrive, stand, bite, leave · To what, where: foot, breath
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 arrived | nsubj |
| 2 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | unmolested | unmolested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 arrived | xcomp |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 foot | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 foot | det |
| 6 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 arrived | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 shaft | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shaft | det |
| 9 | shaft | shaft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foot | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stood | cc |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 arrived | conj |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 stood | advmod |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 stood | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 biting | punct |
| 16 | biting | bite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 stood | advcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 breath | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 breath | nmod:poss |
| 19 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 biting | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 left | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 left | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 left | aux |
| 23 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 24 left | advmod |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 breath | acl:relcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 left | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Hook | the foot of the shaft | unmolested property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | past | Hook not said here | still; again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bite | gerund | Hook not said here | at Hook's breath | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at breath=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave | past · perfect · passive | Hook's breath | almost property | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute |
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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