Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 79
“And they were ours, ours! and now they are gone.”
Who acts: children · What happens: be · To what, where: ours
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 (children), 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 | _ | 5 ours | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ours | cc |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ours | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ours | cop |
| 5 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ours | punct |
| 7 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ours | conj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 ours | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gone | cc |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 gone | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gone | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 gone | cop |
| 13 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ours | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 gone | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ours | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | children = child | ours | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | children = child | now | gone property | tree rules |
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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