Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 119

He skipped about and made funny faces, but when he stopped it was just as if she were inside him, knocking.

Who acts: Wendy, face · What happens: skip, make, stop, be, knock · To what, where: funny faces

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy, face), 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 skipped	nsubj
2	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	2 skipped	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 made	cc
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 skipped	conj
6	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 faces	amod
7	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stopped	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 stopped	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 stopped	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stopped	nsubj
12	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 skipped	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 him	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 him	cop
15	just	just	ADV	_	21 him	advmod
16	as	as	ADV	_	21 him	advmod
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 him	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 him	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 him	cop
20	inside	inside	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stopped	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knocking	punct
23	knocking	knock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 stopped	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 skipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	skip	past	Wendy		about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	Wendy not said here	funny faces		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset face=Product
3	stop	past	Wendy			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	face		inside Sweet	tree rules
5	knock	gerund	Wendy not said here			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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