Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 16
Instead of watching the ship, however, we must now return to that desolate home from which three of our characters had taken heartless flight so long ago.
Who acts: we, that · What happens: watch, return, desolate, take · To what, where: ship, 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 (we, that), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 3 watching | mark |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Instead | fixed |
| 3 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 return | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 watching | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 watching | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 12 return | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 return | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 return | aux |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 return | advmod |
| 12 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 desolate | case |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 desolate | nsubj |
| 15 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 return | conj |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 desolate | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 taken | obl |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 characters | case |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 characters | nmod:poss |
| 22 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 taken | obl |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 taken | aux |
| 24 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 desolate | parataxis |
| 25 | heartless | heartless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 flight | amod |
| 26 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taken | obj |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 long | advmod |
| 28 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 ago | advmod |
| 29 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 24 taken | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | gerund | we not said here | the ship | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | must | we | now | however property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | desolate | infinitive | that | home property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | past · perfect · passive | three | of our characters; ago property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme flight=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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