Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 116
Wendy’s heart went flutter with a sudden thrill.
Who acts: heart · What happens: go · To what, where: flutter
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 (heart), 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 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Wendy | case |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | flutter | flutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 thrill | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 thrill | det |
| 8 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thrill | amod |
| 9 | thrill | thrill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Wendy's heart | flutter | with a sudden thrill | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flutter=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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