Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 184
She looked out, and the night was peppered with stars.
Who acts: Mrs. · What happens: look out, pepper · To what, where: night
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 (Mrs.), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 looked | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 peppered | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 peppered | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 peppered | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 peppered | aux:pass |
| 9 | peppered | pepper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 looked | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 stars | case |
| 11 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 peppered | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | past | Mrs. | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pepper | past · passive | the night | with stars | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with star=Theme |
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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