Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 115
She crawled about the floor, peering at it with a candle for marks of a strange foot.
Who acts: Mrs. · What happens: crawl, peer, mark · To what, where: strange foot
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs.), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 crawled | nsubj |
| 2 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 floor | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 floor | det |
| 5 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crawled | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 peering | punct |
| 7 | peering | peer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 crawled | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 peering | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 candle | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 candle | det |
| 12 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 peering | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 marks | case |
| 14 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 peering | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 foot | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 foot | det |
| 17 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 foot | amod |
| 18 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marks | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crawled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl | past | Mrs. | about the floor | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about floor=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | peer | gerund | Mrs. not said here | with a candle; for marks of a strange foot; at floor | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mark | a strange foot | nom mark «cognition transitive»: 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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