Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 56
Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her children’s minds.
Who acts: Mrs., children · What happens: hear, tidy up, mind · To what, where: minds
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 (Mrs., children), 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 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mrs. | flat |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 heard | advmod |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Peter | case |
| 6 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 tidying | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tidying | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tidying | aux |
| 10 | tidying | tidy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 heard | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 tidying | compound:prt |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 children | nmod:poss |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 minds | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 children | case |
| 15 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tidying | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Mrs. | of Peter; first property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of peter=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tidy up | past · progressive | Mrs. | Mrs.'s children's minds | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mind | Mrs.'s children | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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