Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 67
Her hand moves restlessly on her breast as if she had a pain there.
Who acts: hand, woman · What happens: move, have · To what, where: breast, pain
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 (hand, woman), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hand | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moves | nsubj |
| 3 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | restlessly | restlessly | ADV | _ | 3 moves | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 breast | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 breast | nmod:poss |
| 7 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moves | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 had | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 had | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 moves | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pain | det |
| 13 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 had | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 moves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | woman's hand | woman's breast | restlessly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on breast=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | have | past | woman | a pain | there | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=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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