Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 18
If he thought at all, but I don’t believe he ever thought, it was that he and his shadow, when brought near each other, would join like drops of water, and when they did not he was appalled.
Who acts: Tinker, I, shadow, drops · What happens: think, not believe, be, bring, join, not do · To what, where: all, shadow, each · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tinker, I, shadow, drops), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 thought | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 thought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 believe | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 believe | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 believe | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 believe | aux |
| 10 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 believe | advmod |
| 11 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 thought | advmod |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 believe | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shadow | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 shadow | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 shadow | cop |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 shadow | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 shadow | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shadow | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 22 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 join | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 brought | punct |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 brought | advmod |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 shadow | acl |
| 26 | near | near | ADP | _ | 27 each | case |
| 27 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 25 brought | obl |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 each | fixed |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 join | punct |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 join | aux |
| 31 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 believe | conj |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 drops | case |
| 33 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 join | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 water | case |
| 35 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 drops | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 appalled | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 appalled | cc |
| 38 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 did | advmod |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 did | nsubj |
| 40 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 appalled | advcl |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 did | advmod |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 appalled | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 appalled | cop |
| 44 | appalled | appalled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Tinker | all | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not believe | present · do-support | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Tinker | ever | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | shadow | Tinker's shadow | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bring | participle | each | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | join | would | Tinker's shadow | like drops of water | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | not do | past | drops = drop | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is | past | Tinker | appalled property | tree rules |
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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