Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 104
She gave him a look of the most intense admiration, and he thought it was because he had run away, but it was really because he knew fairies.
Who acts: fairy, Peter, look · What happens: give, think, run away, be · To what, where: look, Peter
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: who acts (fairy, Peter, look), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 look | det |
| 5 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 admiration | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 admiration | det |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 intense | advmod |
| 9 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 admiration | amod |
| 10 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 run | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 run | aux |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 run | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 run | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 run | aux |
| 20 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 run | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 knew | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 knew | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 knew | nsubj:outer |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 knew | cop |
| 26 | really | really | ADV | _ | 29 knew | advmod |
| 27 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 29 knew | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 knew | nsubj |
| 29 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 30 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 knew | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | fairy | a look of the intense admiration | Peter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient look=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Peter | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run away | past · perfect | look | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | look | know 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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