Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 161
They are now embarked on the great adventure of the night when Peter flew in looking for his shadow.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: embark, fly, look, adventure, shadow · To what, where: boys, great adventure, night
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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 embarked | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 embarked | aux:pass |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 embarked | advmod |
| 4 | embarked | embark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 adventure | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 adventure | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 adventure | amod |
| 8 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 embarked | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 adventure | nmod |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 flew | advmod |
| 13 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 flew | nsubj |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 embarked | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 looking | mark |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 flew | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 shadow | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 19 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looking | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 embarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embark | present · passive | boys = boy | the great adventure of the night | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fly | past | Peter | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | Peter not said here | for Peter's shadow | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for shadow=Theme | ||||
| 4 | adventure | the night | nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | shadow | Peter | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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