Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 154
They could not understand this, and a cold fear fell upon all the three of them.
Who acts: children, cold fear · What happens: not understand, fall · To what, where: this, three
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 (children, cold fear), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 understand | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 understand | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 understand | advmod |
| 4 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 understand | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fell | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fear | det |
| 9 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fear | amod |
| 10 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 understand | conj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 three | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 three | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 three | det |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 fell | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 three | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand | could | children = child | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | a cold fear | all three of children | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon three=Location |
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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