Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 13
But there was no elation in his gait, which kept pace with the action of his sombre mind.
Who acts: elation, gait, sombre mind · What happens: be, keep, act, mind · To what, where: pace
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 (elation, gait, sombre mind), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 elation | det |
| 5 | elation | elation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 gait | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 gait | nmod:poss |
| 8 | gait | gait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 elation | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kept | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 kept | nsubj |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gait | acl:relcl |
| 12 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kept | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 action | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 action | det |
| 15 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kept | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mind | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mind | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sombre | sombre | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mind | amod |
| 19 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 action | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no elation in elation's gait | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | elation's gait | pace | with the action of elation's sombre mind | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pace=Theme | |||
| 3 | act | elation's sombre mind | nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | mind | elation | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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