Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 77
The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words, and as Mrs. Darling gazed she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance.
Who acts: name, Mrs. · What happens: stand out, gaze, feel, have · To what, where: bolder letters, oddly cocky appearance
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 (name, Mrs.), 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 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 stood | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 letters | case |
| 6 | bolder | bold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 letters | amod |
| 7 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | obl |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 any | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 letters | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 words | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 words | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 words | amod |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 any | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gazed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gazed | cc |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 gazed | mark |
| 17 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 gazed | nsubj |
| 18 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Mrs. | flat |
| 19 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 felt | nsubj |
| 21 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gazed | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 had | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 felt | ccomp |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 appearance | det |
| 26 | oddly | oddly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 appearance | amod |
| 27 | cocky | cocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 appearance | amod |
| 28 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand out | past | the name | bolder letters than any | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in letter=Location | ||||
| 2 | gaze | past | Mrs. | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | Mrs. | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | past | name | a oddly cocky appearance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=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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