Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 12
The loveliest tinkle as of golden bells answered him.
Who acts: loveliest tinkle · What happens: answer · To what, where: 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 (loveliest tinkle), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tinkle | det |
| 2 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 tinkle | amod |
| 3 | tinkle | tinkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 7 bells | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 as | fixed |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bells | amod |
| 7 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tinkle | nmod |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the loveliest tinkle as golden bells | Peter | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/4/12/