Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 175
When he had tied her up in the back-yard, the wretched father went and sat in the passage, with his knuckles to his eyes.
Who acts: wretched father · What happens: tie up, go, sit · To what, where: George, passage
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 (wretched father), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 tied | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tied | aux |
| 4 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tied | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 tied | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 yard | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 yard | det |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yard | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 back | punct |
| 11 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tied | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 father | det |
| 14 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 father | amod |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tied | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sat | cc |
| 18 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 passage | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 passage | det |
| 21 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sat | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 knuckles | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 knuckles | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 knuckles | nmod:poss |
| 25 | knuckles | knuckle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sat | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 eyes | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sat | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie up | past · perfect · passive | George | in the back yard | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient she=Result | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the wretched father | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sit | past | the wretched father not said here | the passage | with George's knuckles; to George's eyes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in passage=Location |
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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