Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 60
Soon the inward meaning of it leaked out, and the great heart of the public was touched.
Who acts: inward meaning · What happens: leak out, touch, mean · To what, where: great heart, young
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 (inward meaning), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 leaked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 meaning | det |
| 3 | inward | inward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 meaning | amod |
| 4 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaked | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 meaning | nmod |
| 7 | leaked | leak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 leaked | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 touched | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 touched | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heart | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 heart | amod |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 public | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 public | det |
| 16 | public | public | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heart | nmod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 touched | aux:pass |
| 18 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 leaked | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 leaked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leak out | past | the inward meaning of young | soon property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 2 | touch | past · passive | the great heart of the public | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | |||||
| 3 | mean | young | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=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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