Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 114
Really, he thought they had now talked enough about fairies, and it struck him that Tinker Bell was keeping very quiet.
Who acts: tinkle, children, lot, Tinker Bell · What happens: think, talk, strike, keep · To what, where: tinkle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tinkle, children, lot, Tinker Bell), 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 | Really | really | ADV | _ | 4 thought | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Really | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 talked | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 talked | aux |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 talked | advmod |
| 8 | talked | talk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 8 talked | advmod |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 fairies | case |
| 11 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 talked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 struck | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 struck | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 struck | nsubj |
| 15 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 struck | obj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 keeping | mark |
| 18 | Tinker | Tinker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Bell | compound |
| 19 | Bell | Bell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 keeping | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 keeping | aux |
| 21 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 struck | advcl |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 quiet | advmod |
| 23 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 keeping | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | tinkle | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | talk | past · perfect | children = child | now | about fairies; enough property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about fairy=Topic | |||
| 3 | strike | past | lot | tinkle | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | keep | past · progressive | Tinker Bell | quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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