Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 56
The open mouth, the drooping arm, the arched knee: they were such a personification of cockiness as, taken together, will never again, one may hope, be presented to eyes so sensitive to their offensiveness.
Who acts: knees, open mouth · What happens: droop, arch, be, take, hope, present · To what, where: personification, eyes
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 (knees, open mouth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mouth | det |
| 2 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mouth | amod |
| 3 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hope | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 arm | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 arm | det |
| 6 | drooping | droop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 arm | amod |
| 7 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mouth | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knee | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 knee | det |
| 10 | arched | arch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 knee | amod |
| 11 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mouth | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 personification | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 personification | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 personification | cop |
| 15 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 personification | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 personification | det |
| 17 | personification | personification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mouth | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 cockiness | case |
| 19 | cockiness | cockiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 personification | nmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 taken | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 as | punct |
| 22 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 personification | advcl |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 taken | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mouth | punct |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 hope | aux |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 again | advmod |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 hope | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 again | punct |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 hope | nsubj |
| 30 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 hope | aux |
| 31 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 presented | punct |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 presented | aux:pass |
| 34 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 hope | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 eyes | case |
| 36 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 presented | obl |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 sensitive | advmod |
| 38 | sensitive | sensitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 presented | xcomp |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 offensiveness | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 offensiveness | nmod:poss |
| 41 | offensiveness | offensiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 sensitive | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | droop | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | arch | participle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | knees = knee | such personification | of cockiness | tree rules | |||
| 4 | take | participle | knees = knee not said here | together property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | hope | may · future | the open mouth and the drooping arm and the arched knee and such personification | again | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | present | infinitive · passive | the open mouth and the drooping arm and the arched knee and such personification not said here | eyes | sensitive property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: to eye=Recipient |
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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