Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 167
The children wept, and Nana ran to him beseechingly, but he waved her back.
Who acts: children, Nana, George · What happens: weep, run, wave back · To what, where: George, Nana
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 (children, Nana, George), 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 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wept | nsubj |
| 3 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ran | cc |
| 6 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | nsubj |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ran | obl |
| 10 | beseechingly | beseechingly | ADV | _ | 7 ran | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 waved | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 waved | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 waved | nsubj |
| 14 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 waved | obj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 waved | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | the children | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | run | past | Nana | George | beseechingly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | |||
| 3 | wave back | past | George | Nana | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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