Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 49

One arm dropped over the edge of the bed, one leg was arched, and the unfinished part of his laugh was stranded on his mouth, which was open, showing the little pearls.

Who acts: One arm, mouth, Peter · What happens: drop, arch, strand, be, show, laugh · To what, where: edge, one leg, unfinished part, mouth, little pearls

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 (One arm, mouth, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 arm	nummod
2	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	nsubj
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 edge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 edge	det
6	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 bed	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bed	det
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 edge	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 arched	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 leg	nummod
12	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 arched	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 arched	aux:pass
14	arched	arch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dropped	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stranded	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stranded	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 part	det
18	unfinished	unfinished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 part	amod
19	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stranded	nsubj:pass
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 laugh	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 laugh	nmod:poss
22	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 part	nmod
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stranded	aux:pass
24	stranded	strand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dropped	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 mouth	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mouth	nmod:poss
27	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stranded	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 open	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 open	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 open	cop
31	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mouth	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 showing	punct
33	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 open	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 pearls	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 pearls	amod
36	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 showing	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drop	participle	One arm		the edge of the bed		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over edge=Trajectory
2	arch	past · passive		one leg			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	strand	past · passive		the unfinished part of Peter's laugh	Peter's mouth		tree rules
4	is	past	Peter's mouth			open property	tree rules
5	show	gerund	Peter's mouth not said here	the little pearls			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pearl=Recipient
6	laugh		Peter				nom laugh «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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