Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 237
Their faces assumed the awful craftiness of children listening for sounds from the grown-up world.
Who acts: faces, children · What happens: assume, listen, grow up · To what, where: awful craftiness
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 (faces, children), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 faces | nmod:poss |
| 2 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 assumed | nsubj |
| 3 | assumed | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 craftiness | det |
| 5 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 craftiness | amod |
| 6 | craftiness | craftiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 assumed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 children | case |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 craftiness | nmod |
| 9 | listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 children | acl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 sounds | case |
| 11 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 listening | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 14 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 world | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 up | punct |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 grown | compound:prt |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sounds | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 assumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assume | past | blades's faces | the awful craftiness of children | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent craftiness=Theme | ||||
| 2 | listen | gerund | children not said here | for sounds from the grown world | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for sound=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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