Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 198
He came back, and there was a greedy look in his eyes now which ought to have alarmed her, but did not.
Who acts: Peter, greedy look · What happens: come back, be, alarm, not do · To what, where: eyes
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, greedy look), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 was | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 was | cc |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 look | det |
| 9 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 look | amod |
| 10 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 eyes | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 look | nmod |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 alarmed | advmod |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 alarmed | aux |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 alarmed | mark |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 alarmed | aux |
| 19 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 alarmed | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 did | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 did | cc |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 did | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | Peter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | past | a greedy look in Peter's eyes | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | alarm | ought · perfect · passive | a greedy look in Peter's eyes not said here | Peter's eyes | now | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer she=Result | |||
| 4 | not do | past | Peter not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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