Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 76
The light guttered and went out, leaving the tenement in darkness; but still he slept.
Who acts: light, Peter · What happens: gutter, go out, leave, sleep · To what, where: tenement, darkness
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 (light, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 light | det |
| 2 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 guttered | nsubj |
| 3 | guttered | gutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 guttered | conj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 went | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 leaving | punct |
| 8 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 went | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tenement | det |
| 10 | tenement | tenement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leaving | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 darkness | case |
| 12 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tenement | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 slept | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 slept | cc |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 slept | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 slept | nsubj |
| 17 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 guttered | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 guttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gutter | past | the light | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go out | past | the light not said here | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | the light not said here | the tenement | darkness | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tenement=Theme in darkness=Location | |||
| 4 | sleep | past | Peter | still | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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