Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 37
There was not a sound, and he drew himself up firmly to his full height.
Who acts: sound · What happens: not be, draw up · To what, where: sound, full height
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 (sound), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sound | det |
| 5 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drew | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 drew | nsubj |
| 9 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 drew | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 drew | compound:prt |
| 12 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 16 height | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 height | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 height | nmod:poss |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 height | amod |
| 16 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | past | a sound | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw up | past | sound | sound | sound's full height | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to height=Destination |
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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