Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 136

She started up with a cry, and saw the boy, and somehow she knew at once that he was Peter Pan.

Who acts: adventure, dog · What happens: start up, see, know, be · To what, where: boy, Peter Pan

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 (adventure, dog), 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 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 started	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 cry	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cry	det
6	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 started	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 saw	cc
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 started	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knew	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 knew	cc
14	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	16 knew	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 knew	obl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 Pan	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 Pan	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Pan	cop
22	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Pan	compound
23	Pan	Pan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 knew	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	start up	past	adventure		with a cry	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with cry=Subeventuality
2	see	past		the boy		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
3	know	past	adventure		somehow property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	dog	Peter Pan		tree rules

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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