Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 232
But he supposed she was; and he took a step towards the sleeping child with his dagger upraised.
Who acts: Michael, baby, dagger · What happens: suppose, be, take, upraise · To what, where: step, sleeping child · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Michael, baby, dagger), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 supposed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 supposed | nsubj |
| 3 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 supposed | ccomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 supposed | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 step | det |
| 11 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 15 child | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 child | det |
| 14 | sleeping | sleeping | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 child | amod |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 16 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 19 upraised | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dagger | nmod:poss |
| 18 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 upraised | nsubj |
| 19 | upraised | upraise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 child | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 supposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | past | Michael | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | past | baby | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | Michael | a step | towards the sleeping child | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | |||
| 4 | upraise | past | Michael's dagger | the sleeping child not said here | tree rules |
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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