Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 113
Fine gentlemen though he was, the intensity of his communings had soiled his ruff, and suddenly he knew that she was gazing at it.
Who acts: beauty, Fine gentlemen, porthole · What happens: be, soil, know, gaze · To what, where: intensity, ruff
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beauty, Fine gentlemen, porthole), 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 | Fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gentlemen | amod |
| 2 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 soiled | nsubj |
| 3 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 8 intensity | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 intensity | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 intensity | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 intensity | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 intensity | det |
| 8 | intensity | intensity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gentlemen | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 communings | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 communings | nmod:poss |
| 11 | communings | communing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 intensity | nmod |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 soiled | aux |
| 13 | soiled | soil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ruff | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ruff | ruff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 soiled | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 knew | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 knew | cc |
| 18 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 20 knew | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 knew | nsubj |
| 20 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 soiled | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 gazing | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gazing | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 gazing | aux |
| 24 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 knew | advcl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gazing | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 soiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | beauty | the intensity | of beauty's communings | tree rules | |||
| 2 | soil | past · perfect | Fine gentlemen | beauty's ruff | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent ruff=Destination | ||||
| 3 | know | past | beauty | suddenly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | gaze | past · progressive | porthole | at ruff | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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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