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Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 108

“You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”

Who acts: You, first baby, laugh, pieces, that, baby · What happens: see, laugh, break, go, skip, be · To what, where: Wendy, thousand pieces, beginning

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 (You, first baby, laugh, pieces), 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

punctnsubjpunctobjpunctmarkdetamodnsubjparataxiscasedetamodoblpunctnmod:possnsubjconjcasedetnummodoblpunctccnsubjadvmodconjxcompadvmodpunctccnsubjcopdetoblcasenmodpunctpunctroot“PUNCTYouPRONseeVERB,PUNCTWendyPROPN,PUNCTwhenSCONJtheDETfirstADJbabyNOUNlaughedVERBforADPtheDETfirstADJtimeNOUN,PUNCTitsPRONlaughNOUNbrokeVERBintoADPaDETthousandNUMpiecesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheyPRONallDETwentVERBskippingVERBaboutADV,PUNCTandCCONJthatPRONwasAUXtheDETbeginningNOUNofADPfairiesNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_3 seepunct
2YouyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs3 seensubj
3seeseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4,,PUNCT_5 Wendypunct
5WendyWendyPROPNNumber=Sing3 seeobj
6,,PUNCT_11 laughedpunct
7whenwhenSCONJ_11 laughedmark
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 babydet
9firstfirstADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord10 babyamod
10babybabyNOUNNumber=Sing11 laughednsubj
11laughedlaughVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 seeparataxis
12forforADP_15 timecase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 timedet
14firstfirstADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord15 timeamod
15timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing11 laughedobl
16,,PUNCT_19 brokepunct
17itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 laughnmod:poss
18laughlaughNOUNNumber=Sing19 brokensubj
19brokebreakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 laughedconj
20intointoADP_23 piecescase
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 thousanddet
22thousandthousandNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card23 piecesnummod
23piecespieceNOUNNumber=Plur19 brokeobl
24,,PUNCT_28 wentpunct
25andandCCONJ_28 wentcc
26theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs28 wentnsubj
27allallDETPronType=Tot28 wentadvmod
28wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 laughedconj
29skippingskipVERBVerbForm=Ger28 wentxcomp
30aboutaboutADV_29 skippingadvmod
31,,PUNCT_36 beginningpunct
32andandCCONJ_36 beginningcc
33thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem36 beginningnsubj
34wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 beginningcop
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 beginningdet
36beginningbeginningNOUNNumber=Sing28 wentobl
37ofofADP_38 fairiescase
38fairiesfairyNOUNNumber=Plur36 beginningnmod
39..PUNCT_3 seepunct
40”"PUNCT_3 seepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1see in a quotepresentYouWendyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wendy=Stimulus
2laugh in a quotepastthe first babytimevn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3break in a quotepastbaby's laughinto thousand pieces resultvn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result
4go in a quotepastpieces = piecevn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5skip in a quotegerundpieces = piece not said hereabout propertyvn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6is a in a quotepastthatthe beginningof fairiestree rules
7laugh in a quotebabynom laugh «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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