Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 149
Nana wagged her tail, ran to the medicine, and began lapping it.
Who acts: Nana · What happens: wag, run, begin, lap · To what, where: tail
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 (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 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wagged | nsubj |
| 2 | wagged | wag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 tail | nmod:poss |
| 4 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wagged | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wagged | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 medicine | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 medicine | det |
| 9 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wagged | conj |
| 13 | lapping | lap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 began | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lapping | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wagged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wag | past | Nana | Nana's tail | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Nana not said here | to the medicine result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to medicine=Result | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | Nana not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | lap | gerund | Nana not said here | tail | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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