Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 1
Mrs. Darling screamed, and, as if in answer to a bell, the door opened, and Nana entered, returned from her evening out.
Who acts: Mrs., Nana · What happens: scream, open, enter, return out · To what, where: answer
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs., Nana), 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 | 3 screamed | nsubj |
| 2 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mrs. | flat |
| 3 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 opened | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 opened | cc |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 and | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 opened | mark |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 opened | mark |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 answer | case |
| 10 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 opened | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 bell | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bell | det |
| 13 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answer | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 door | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answer | nmod |
| 17 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 screamed | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 entered | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 entered | cc |
| 20 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 entered | nsubj |
| 21 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 screamed | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 returned | punct |
| 23 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 entered | conj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 evening | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 evening | nmod:poss |
| 26 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 returned | obl |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 returned | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past | Mrs. | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | open a condition, not said to happen | past | Mrs. not said here | answer to a bell the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in answer=Location | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | Nana | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | return out | past | Nana not said here | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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