Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 220
He gave a cry of pain; and when the tall beautiful creature stooped to lift him in her arms he drew back sharply.
Who acts: Peter, tall beautiful creature, pain · What happens: give, stoop, lift, draw back, cry · To what, where: cry, Peter, arms
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, tall beautiful creature, pain), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cry | det |
| 4 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 pain | case |
| 6 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cry | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 stooped | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stooped | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 stooped | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 creature | det |
| 11 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 creature | amod |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 creature | amod |
| 13 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stooped | nsubj |
| 14 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gave | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 lift | mark |
| 16 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 stooped | xcomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lift | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 arms | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 arms | nmod:poss |
| 20 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lift | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 drew | nsubj |
| 22 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 arms | acl:relcl |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 sharply | advmod |
| 24 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 22 drew | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Peter | a cry of pain | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stoop | participle | the tall beautiful creature | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lift | to-infinitive | the tall beautiful creature not said here | Peter | creature's arms | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in arm=Destination | |||
| 4 | draw back | past | Peter | creature's arms not said here | sharply property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 5 | cry | pain | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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