Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 70
Ever and anon the light from his cigar gave a touch of colour to his face.
Who acts: anon · What happens: give, touch · To what, where: touch, face, colour
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 (anon), 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 | Ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 anon | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 anon | cc |
| 3 | anon | anon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 light | det |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 cigar | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cigar | nmod:poss |
| 8 | cigar | cigar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 light | nmod |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 touch | det |
| 11 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 colour | case |
| 13 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 touch | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 face | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 face | nmod:poss |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | anon | a touch of colour | light's face | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent touch=Theme to face=Recipient | |||
| 2 | touch | colour | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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