Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 48
But on this occasion he had fallen at once into a dreamless sleep.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: fall · To what, where: occasion
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 fallen | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 occasion | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 occasion | det |
| 4 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fallen | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fallen | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fallen | aux |
| 7 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 fallen | obl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 sleep | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sleep | det |
| 12 | dreamless | dreamless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sleep | amod |
| 13 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fallen | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · perfect | Peter | this occasion | into a dreamless sleep | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on occasion=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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