Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 236
Michael was up by this time also, looking as sharp as a knife with six blades and a saw, but Peter suddenly signed silence.
Who acts: Michael, time, Peter · What happens: be, look, sign · To what, where: silence
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 (Michael, time, Peter), 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 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | cop |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 was | compound:prt |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 time | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looking | punct |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 time | acl |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 sharp | advmod |
| 11 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looking | xcomp |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 knife | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 knife | det |
| 14 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sharp | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 blades | case |
| 16 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 blades | nummod |
| 17 | blades | blade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 looking | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 saw | det |
| 20 | saw | saw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blades | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 signed | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 signed | cc |
| 23 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 signed | nsubj |
| 24 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 25 signed | advmod |
| 25 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | conj |
| 26 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 signed | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Michael | by this time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | this time not said here | with six blades and a saw; sharp property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sign | past | Peter | silence | suddenly property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent silence=Destination |
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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