Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 189

She went from bed to bed singing enchantments over them, and little Michael flung his arms round her.

Who acts: Mrs., little Michael · What happens: go, sing, fling · To what, where: bed, enchantments, arms

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., little Michael), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 bed	case
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 bed	case
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
8	enchantments	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 singing	obj
9	over	over	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 singing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 flung	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 flung	cc
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Michael	amod
14	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 flung	nsubj
15	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 arms	nmod:poss
17	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 flung	obj
18	round	round	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 flung	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Mrs.		bed	to bed	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from bed=Initial_Location to bed=Destination
2	sing speech: express	gerund	Mrs. not said here	enchantments		over lights = light	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location enchantment=Theme
3	fling	past	little Michael	Michael's arms		round Mrs.	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=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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