Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 16

She meant the chest of drawers, and Peter jumped at the drawers, scattering their contents to the floor with both hands, as kings toss ha’pence to the crowd.

Who acts: Tink, Peter, kings · What happens: mean, jump, scatter, toss · To what, where: chest, drawers, contents, ha’pence, crowd

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 (Tink, Peter, kings), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 meant	nsubj
2	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chest	det
4	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meant	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 drawers	case
6	drawers	drawer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chest	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 jumped	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 jumped	cc
9	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 jumped	nsubj
10	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 meant	parataxis
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 drawers	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 drawers	det
13	drawers	drawer	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 jumped	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 scattering	punct
15	scattering	scatter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 jumped	advcl
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 contents	nmod:poss
17	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	15 scattering	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 floor	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 floor	det
20	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 scattering	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 hands	case
22	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	23 hands	det
23	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 jumped	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 toss	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 toss	mark
26	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 toss	nsubj
27	toss	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 jumped	conj
28	ha’pence	ha'pence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 toss	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 crowd	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 crowd	det
31	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 toss	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	past	Tink	the chest of drawers				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Topic
2	jump	past	Peter			the drawers	with both hands	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at drawer=Trajectory
3	scatter	gerund	Peter not said here	drawers's contents			to the floor	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent contents=Theme
4	toss	present	kings	ha’pence	the crowd			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ha'pence=Patient to crowd=Recipient

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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