Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 53
“It was then that I rushed in like a tornado, wasn’t it?”
Who acts: bark, Boy · What happens: be, not rush in
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 (bark, Boy), 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 | _ | 7 rushed | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 then | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 then | cop |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 rushed | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 rushed | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 rushed | nsubj |
| 7 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 rushed | compound:prt |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 tornado | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tornado | det |
| 11 | tornado | tornado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rushed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 n’t | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 n’t | cop |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 rushed | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 n’t | nsubj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 rushed | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | bark | then property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not rush in in a quote | past | Boy or girl = boy | like a tornado | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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