Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 131
He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no children.
Who acts: dog, adventure, many women · What happens: do, think, see, have · To what, where: alarm, dog, faces, children · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dog, adventure, many women), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 alarm | advmod |
| 4 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 alarm | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 thought | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seen | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seen | obj |
| 14 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 seen | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 faces | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 faces | det |
| 17 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 seen | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 women | case |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 women | amod |
| 20 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 faces | nmod |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 have | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 women | acl:relcl |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 children | det |
| 24 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 have | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | dog | alarm adventure | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alarm=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | adventure | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | adventure | dog | the faces of many women | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | have | present | many women | no children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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