Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 45
For hours he could not be separated from these dreams, though he wailed piteously in them.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: not separate, wail · To what, where: Peter
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 (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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 hours | case |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 separated | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 separated | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 separated | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 separated | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 separated | aux:pass |
| 7 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 dreams | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 dreams | det |
| 10 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 separated | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wailed | punct |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 wailed | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wailed | nsubj |
| 14 | wailed | wail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 separated | advcl |
| 15 | piteously | piteously | ADV | _ | 14 wailed | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wailed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 separated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not separate | could · passive | Peter | hour | from this dreams | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from dream=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | wail | past | Peter | in dreams = dream; piteously property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in they=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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