Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 135

He was accompanied by a strange light, no bigger than your fist, which darted about the room like a living thing and I think it must have been this light that wakened Mrs. Darling.

Who acts: strange light, fist, I, dream, light · What happens: accompany, dart, think, be, waken · To what, where: dog, light, Mrs. Darling · 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 (strange light, fist, I, dream), 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	3 accompanied	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 accompanied	aux:pass
3	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 light	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 light	det
6	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 light	amod
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accompanied	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bigger	punct
9	no	no	ADV	_	10 bigger	advmod
10	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 light	amod
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 fist	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 fist	nmod:poss
13	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bigger	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 darted	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 darted	nsubj
16	darted	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fist	acl:relcl
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 room	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 room	det
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 darted	obl
20	like	like	ADP	_	23 thing	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 thing	det
22	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thing	compound
23	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 darted	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 think	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 think	nsubj
26	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 accompanied	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 light	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 light	aux
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 light	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 light	cop
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 light	det
32	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 think	ccomp
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 wakened	nsubj
34	wakened	waken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 light	acl:relcl
35	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Darling	compound
36	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 wakened	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 accompanied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accompany	past · passive	a strange light	dog		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	dart	past	your fist		about the room; like a living thing	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about room=Trajectory
3	think speech: other	present	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	must · perfect	dream	this light		tree rules
5	waken	past	this light	Mrs. Darling		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent darling=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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