Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 139
A chill fell upon them; and serve them right.
Who acts: chill · What happens: fall, serve · To what, where: words
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 (chill), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chill | det |
| 2 | chill | chill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fell | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 serve | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 serve | cc |
| 8 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fell | parataxis |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 serve | obj |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 serve | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a chill | upon words = word | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location | ||||
| 2 | serve | infinitive | words = word | right property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Attribute |
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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