Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 135
Wendy gave the words, one, two, three, and Michael took his medicine, but Mr. Darling slipped his behind his back.
Who acts: Wendy, Michael, Darling · What happens: give, take, slip, medicine · To what, where: words, medicine, back
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 (Wendy, Michael, Darling), 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 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 words | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 two | punct |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 one | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 three | punct |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 one | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 13 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 medicine | nmod:poss |
| 16 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 slipped | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 slipped | cc |
| 19 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Darling | nmod:desc |
| 20 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 slipped | nsubj |
| 21 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 back | nmod:poss |
| 23 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 25 back | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 back | nmod:poss |
| 25 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 slipped | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Wendy | the words | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Michael | Michael's medicine | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme | ||||
| 3 | slip | past | Darling Mr. | Michael's back | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent back=Patient | ||||
| 4 | medicine | Michael | nom medicine «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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