Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 188
“Nothing, precious,” she said; “they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.”
Who acts: Mrs., lights, eyes · What happens: say, be, leave, guard · To what, where: eyes, children · Speech: someone speaks here
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., lights, eyes), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 precious | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 precious | compound |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 4 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 precious | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 precious | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 precious | parataxis |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 leaves | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 eyes | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 eyes | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 eyes | det |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 leaves | nsubj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mother | det |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 leaves | nsubj |
| 17 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 precious | conj |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 leaves | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 guard | mark |
| 21 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 leaves | advcl |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 children | nmod:poss |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 guard | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 precious | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 precious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Mrs. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | lights = light | the eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | present | the eyes | behind Mrs. | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind she=Location | ||||
| 4 | guard in a quote | to-infinitive | the eyes not said here | Mrs.'s children | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary |
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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