Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 139
When he saw she was a grown-up, he gnashed the little pearls at her.
Who acts: dog · What happens: see, grow up, gnash · To what, where: tree, little pearls · 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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gnashed | advcl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 grown | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grown | aux:pass |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 grown | det |
| 7 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 up | punct |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 grown | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gnashed | nsubj |
| 12 | gnashed | gnash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pearls | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pearls | amod |
| 15 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gnashed | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gnashed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 gnashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | dog | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | grow up | past · passive | tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | gnash | past | dog | the little pearls | at tree | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=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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