Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 3
She was wrapped in the blanket of night, through which no sound from her could have reached the shore.
What happens: wrap, reach · To what, where: scarce, blanket, sound
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: 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 | 3 wrapped | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrapped | aux:pass |
| 3 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 blanket | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 blanket | det |
| 6 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrapped | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blanket | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 reached | punct |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 reached | obl |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 sound | det |
| 13 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sound | nmod |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 reached | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 reached | aux |
| 18 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wrapped | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 shore | det |
| 20 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reached | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | past · passive | scarce | the blanket of night | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in blanket=Destination | ||||
| 2 | reach | could · perfect · passive | no sound from scarce | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary shore=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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