Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 257
Our last glimpse of her shows her at the window, watching them receding into the sky until they were as small as stars.
Who acts: last glimpse, teeth, Our · What happens: show, watch, recede, be, glimpse · To what, where: Jane, window, teeth, sky
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 (last glimpse, teeth, Our), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 glimpse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 glimpse | amod |
| 3 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shows | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 glimpse | nmod |
| 6 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 shows | iobj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 window | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 window | det |
| 10 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shows | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 watching | punct |
| 12 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 shows | advcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 watching | obj |
| 14 | receding | recede | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 watching | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 sky | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sky | det |
| 17 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 receding | obl |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 22 small | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 small | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 small | cop |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 small | advmod |
| 22 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 receding | advcl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 stars | case |
| 24 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 small | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Our last glimpse of Jane | Jane | the window | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | watch | gerund | Our last glimpse of Jane not said here | teeth = tooth | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | recede | gerund | Our last glimpse of Jane not said here | the sky | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sky=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | teeth = tooth | as stars; small property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | glimpse | Our | Jane | nom glimpse «act transitive»: poss=agent 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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