Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 134

The dream by itself would have been a trifle, but while she was dreaming the window of the nursery blew open, and a boy did drop on the floor.

Who acts: dream, adventure, boy · What happens: be, dream, blow, drop · To what, where: trifle, window, floor

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 (dream, adventure, boy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dream	det
2	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trifle	nsubj
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 itself	case
4	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	2 dream	nmod
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 trifle	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 trifle	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 trifle	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 trifle	det
9	trifle	trifle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 blew	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 blew	cc
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 dreaming	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dreaming	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dreaming	aux
15	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 blew	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 window	det
17	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dreaming	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 nursery	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 nursery	det
20	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 window	nmod
21	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 trifle	parataxis
22	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 blew	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 drop	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 drop	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 boy	det
26	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drop	nsubj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 drop	aux
28	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 blew	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 floor	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 floor	det
31	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drop	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 trifle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	would · perfect	the dream by dream	a trifle			tree rules
2	dream	past · progressive	adventure	the window of the nursery			vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Topic
3	blow	past				open property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	drop	past · do-support	a boy		the floor		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on floor=Trajectory
5	dream		dream				nom dream «cognition transitive»: by=agent

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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