Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 127

He let poor Tink out of the drawer, and she flew about the nursery screaming with fury.

Who acts: Peter, Wendy, nursery · What happens: let, tink, fly, scream · To what, where: drawer

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 (Peter, Wendy, nursery), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 let	xcomp
4	Tink	tink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 drawer	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 drawer	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 drawer	det
8	drawer	drawer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Tink	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 flew	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 flew	nsubj
12	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 let	conj
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 nursery	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 nursery	det
15	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flew	obl
16	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 nursery	acl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 fury	case
18	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 screaming	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	let	past	Peter		poor property	tree rules
2	tink	infinitive	Peter not said here	the drawer		tree rules
3	fly	past	Wendy		about the nursery	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent about nursery=Location
4	scream speech: express	gerund	the nursery not said here		with fury	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fury=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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