Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 178
And indeed Tink was darting about again, using offensive language.
Who acts: Tink · What happens: dart about, use · To what, where: offensive language
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 darting | cc |
| 2 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 darting | advmod |
| 3 | Tink | Tink | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 darting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 darting | aux |
| 5 | darting | dart | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 again | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 darting | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 using | punct |
| 9 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 darting | conj |
| 10 | offensive | offensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 language | amod |
| 11 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 using | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 darting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dart about | past · progressive | Tink | again | indeed property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | use | gerund | Tink not said here | offensive language | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient |
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/pg16/4/178/