Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 93
She flew in excitedly, her face flushed and her dress stained with mud.
Who acts: last, face, dress · What happens: fly, flush, stain
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 (last, face, dress), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 excitedly | case |
| 4 | excitedly | excitedly | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 flew | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flushed | punct |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flushed | nsubj |
| 8 | flushed | flush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stained | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dress | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stained | nsubj |
| 12 | stained | stain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flushed | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 mud | case |
| 14 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stained | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | last | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in excitedly=Location | |||||
| 2 | flush | past | last's face | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stain | past | last's dress | with mud | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with mud=Theme |
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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