Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 150
“They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way.
Who acts: Gardens, children, nurse · What happens: be, fall, look · To what, where: children, perambulators, other way
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 (Gardens, children, nurse), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 children | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 children | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 children | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 children | det |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 fall | nsubj |
| 7 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 children | acl:relcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 perambulators | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 perambulators | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 perambulators | nmod:poss |
| 11 | perambulators | perambulator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fall | obl |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 looking | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nurse | det |
| 14 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looking | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 looking | aux |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 fall | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 way | amod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looking | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 children | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Gardens = garden | the children | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall in a quote | present | the children | Gardens's perambulators | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out perambulator=Location | ||||
| 3 | look in a quote | present · progressive | the nurse | the other way | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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