Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 80
The romp had ended with the appearance of Nana, and most unluckily Mr. Darling collided against her, covering his trousers with hairs.
Who acts: most · What happens: end, collide, cover · To what, where: romp, trousers
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 (most), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 romp | det |
| 2 | romp | romp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ended | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ended | aux |
| 4 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 appearance | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 appearance | det |
| 7 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ended | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Nana | case |
| 9 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 appearance | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 collided | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 collided | cc |
| 12 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 collided | nsubj |
| 13 | unluckily | unluckily | ADV | _ | 15 Darling | advmod |
| 14 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Darling | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 most | nmod |
| 16 | collided | collide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ended | conj |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 collided | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 covering | punct |
| 20 | covering | cover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 collided | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 trousers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 covering | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 hairs | case |
| 24 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 covering | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past · perfect · passive | the romp | with the appearance of Nana | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: subject=Eventuality with appearance=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | collide | past | most Darling Mr. | against Darling | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against she=Location | ||||
| 3 | cover | gerund | most Darling Mr. not said here | Mr.'s trousers | with hairs | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent trousers=Destination with hair=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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