Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 116
She rattled the poker up the chimney and tapped the walls.
Who acts: Mrs. · What happens: rattle up, tap · To what, where: poker, walls
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 rattled | nsubj |
| 2 | rattled | rattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 poker | det |
| 4 | poker | poker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rattled | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 rattled | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chimney | det |
| 7 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rattled | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tapped | cc |
| 9 | tapped | tap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rattled | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 walls | det |
| 11 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tapped | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rattled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rattle up | past | Mrs. | the poker | the chimney obl | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent poker=Theme | |||
| 2 | tap | past | Mrs. not said here | the walls | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent wall=Location |
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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