Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 198
He had one of his dreams that night, and cried in his sleep for a long time, and Wendy held him tightly.
Who acts: Peter, Wendy · What happens: have, cry, hold, dream, sleep · To what, where: one, sleep, Peter
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 (Peter, Wendy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 had | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 dreams | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 night | det |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dreams | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cried | cc |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sleep | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 held | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 held | cc |
| 21 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 held | nsubj |
| 22 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 held | obj |
| 24 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 22 held | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Peter | one of Peter's dreams that night | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Peter's sleep | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sleep=Location | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | Wendy | Peter | tightly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | dream | Peter | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | sleep | Peter | nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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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