Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 34
Ofttimes he drew his sleeve across his face, but there was no damming that trickle.
Who acts: Ofttimes, damming trickle · What happens: draw, be, dam · To what, where: sleeve, face
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 (Ofttimes, damming trickle), 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 | Ofttimes | ofttime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sleeve | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 face | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 face | nmod:poss |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 was | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 was | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 trickle | det |
| 14 | damming | dam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 trickle | amod |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 trickle | det |
| 16 | trickle | trickle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 was | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Ofttimes | perspiration's sleeve | perspiration's face | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleeve=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | past | no damming trickle | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dam | gerund | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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