Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 60

He came rushing into the nursery with the crumpled little brute of a tie in his hand.

Who acts: occasion · What happens: come, rush, crumple · To what, where: nursery

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 (occasion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:242): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	xcomp
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 nursery	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nursery	det
6	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rushing	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 brute	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 brute	det
9	crumpled	crumple	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 brute	amod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 brute	amod
11	brute	brute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rushing	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 tie	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tie	det
14	tie	tie	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brute	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brute	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come	past	occasion		tree rules
2	rush	gerund	occasion not said here	into the nursery result; with the crumpled little brute of a tie in occasion's hand	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into nursery=Result
3	crumple	participle			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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