Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 123
The sound came from the chest of drawers, and Peter made a merry face.
Who acts: sound, Peter · What happens: come, make · To what, where: chest, merry face
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 (sound, Peter), 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 | 2 sound | det |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 chest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chest | det |
| 6 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 drawers | case |
| 8 | drawers | drawer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chest | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 11 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 face | det |
| 14 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 face | amod |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the sound | the chest of drawers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from chest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Peter | a merry face | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Product |
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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