Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 81

Of course Peter promised; and then he flew away.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: promise, fly away

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	Of	of	ADP	_	3 Peter	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 promised	obl
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 flew	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flew	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 flew	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 flew	nsubj
9	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 promised	conj
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 flew	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past						of Peter	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	fly away	past	Peter				then	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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