Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 1
For a moment after Mr. and Mrs. Darling left the house the night-lights by the beds of the three children continued to burn clearly.
What happens: leave, continue, burn · To what, where: house, three children
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obl |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 Mr. | case |
| 5 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 moment | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Mrs. | cc |
| 7 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mr. | conj |
| 8 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Mrs. | flat |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lights | det |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lights | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 night | punct |
| 15 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 left | obj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 beds | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 beds | det |
| 18 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 left | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 children | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 children | det |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 children | nummod |
| 22 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 beds | nmod |
| 23 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 children | acl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 burn | mark |
| 25 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 continued | advcl |
| 26 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 25 burn | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the house | moment | by the beds of the three children | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent house=Theme light=Attribute | |||
| 2 | continue | participle | the three children not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | burn | to-infinitive | clearly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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