Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 73
As he emerged at the top he looked the very spirit of evil breaking from its hole.
Who acts: look · What happens: emerge, look · To what, where: top, spirit
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 (look), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 emerged | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 emerged | nsubj |
| 3 | emerged | emerge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 top | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 top | det |
| 6 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 emerged | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 top | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spirit | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 spirit | advmod |
| 11 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 breaking | case |
| 13 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 breaking | amod |
| 14 | breaking | breaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spirit | nmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 hole | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hole | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 breaking | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 emerged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | emerge | past | look | the top | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | past | look | the spirit of evil breaking from breaking's hole | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme spirit=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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