Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 114
It was for neither a scream nor a crow that she was watching, it was for the reappearance of Peter.
Who acts: mast, crow · What happens: be, watch
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mast, crow), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 scream | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 scream | cop |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 scream | case |
| 4 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 scream | cc:preconj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 scream | det |
| 6 | scream | scream | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 crow | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 crow | det |
| 9 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scream | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 watching | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 watching | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 watching | aux |
| 13 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 crow | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reappearance | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 reappearance | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 reappearance | cop |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 reappearance | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 reappearance | det |
| 19 | reappearance | reappearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scream | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Peter | case |
| 21 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 reappearance | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 scream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | mast | for a scream nor a crow and the reappearance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | watch | past · progressive | crow | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | mast | for the reappearance; of Peter | tree rules |
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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