Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 20
A shudder passed through Peter, and he sat on the floor and cried.
Who acts: shudder · What happens: pass, sit, cry · To what, where: Peter, floor
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 (shudder), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 shudder | det |
| 2 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 Peter | case |
| 5 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sat | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sat | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sat | nsubj |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 floor | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 floor | det |
| 12 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cried | cc |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sat | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | a shudder | Peter | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through peter=Location | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | shudder | the floor | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | shudder not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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