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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Wendy | punct |
| 5 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 laughed | punct |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 laughed | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 baby | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 baby | amod |
| 10 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laughed | nsubj |
| 11 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | parataxis |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laughed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 broke | punct |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 laugh | nmod:poss |
| 18 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 broke | nsubj |
| 19 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 laughed | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 pieces | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 thousand | det |
| 22 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 pieces | nummod |
| 23 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 broke | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 went | nsubj |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 went | advmod |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 laughed | conj |
| 29 | skipping | skip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 went | xcomp |
| 30 | about | about | ADV | _ | 29 skipping | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 beginning | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 beginning | cc |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 beginning | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 beginning | cop |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 beginning | det |
| 36 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 fairies | case |
| 38 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 beginning | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | You | Wendy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wendy=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | laugh in a quote | past | the first baby | time | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | break in a quote | past | baby's laugh | into thousand pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | past | pieces = piece | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | skip in a quote | gerund | pieces = piece not said here | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | past | that | the beginning | of fairies | tree rules | |||
| 7 | laugh in a quote | baby | nom 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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