Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 11
She decided to roll the shadow up and put it away carefully in a drawer, until a fitting opportunity came for telling her husband.
Who acts: Darling, fitting opportunity · What happens: decide, roll up, put away, come, tell · To what, where: shadow, drawer, husband · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Darling, fitting opportunity), 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 decided | nsubj |
| 2 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 roll | mark |
| 4 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 decided | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shadow | det |
| 6 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roll | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 roll | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 put | cc |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 roll | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 put | advmod |
| 12 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 9 put | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 drawer | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 drawer | det |
| 15 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 came | mark |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 opportunity | det |
| 19 | fitting | fitting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 opportunity | amod |
| 20 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 decided | conj |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 telling | mark |
| 23 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 came | advcl |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 husband | nmod:poss |
| 25 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 telling | iobj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | Darling | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | roll up not said to happen | to-infinitive | Darling not said here | the shadow | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Agent | ||||
| 3 | put away | infinitive | Darling not said here | shadow | a drawer | away, carefully property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in drawer=Destination | ||
| 4 | come | past | a fitting opportunity | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a fitting opportunity not said here | Darling's husband | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient |
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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