Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 97
Peter’s heart bobbed up and down as he listened.
Who acts: way · What happens: bob up, listen · To what, where: heart
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 (way), 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Peter | case |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | bobbed | bob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 heart | acl |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 bobbed | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 down | cc |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 up | conj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 listened | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 listened | nsubj |
| 10 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bobbed | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bob up | participle | Peter's heart not said here | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | listen | past | way | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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