Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 5

As he leapt at the window Nana had closed it quickly, too late to catch him, but his shadow had not had time to get out; slam went the window and snapped it off.

Who acts: boy, shadow, slam · What happens: leapt, close, catch, not have, get out, go · To what, where: Nana, window, boy, shadow

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 (boy, shadow, slam), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 leapt	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leapt	nsubj
3	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 window	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 closed	obl
7	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 closed	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 closed	aux
9	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 leapt	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 closed	obj
11	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	9 closed	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 late	punct
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 late	advmod
14	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 closed	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 catch	mark
16	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 late	xcomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 catch	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 shadow	nmod:poss
21	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 had	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 had	advmod
24	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 leapt	parataxis
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 get	mark
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 time	acl
28	out	out	ADV	_	27 get	advmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 went	punct
30	slam	slam	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 went	nsubj
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 leapt	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 window	det
33	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 went	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 snapped	cc
35	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 went	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 snapped	obj
37	off	off	ADP	_	35 snapped	compound:prt
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 leapt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leapt	past	boy					tree rules
2	close	past · perfect · passive		Nana	the window		quickly property	tree rules
3	catch	to-infinitive		boy				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	not have	past · perfect	boy's shadow			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	get out	to-infinitive	boy's shadow not said here				out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go	past	slam	the window				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme
7	snap off	past	slam not said here	shadow				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
8	shadow		boy					nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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