Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 24
Peter could be exceeding polite also, having learned the grand manner at fairy ceremonies, and he rose and bowed to her beautifully.
Who acts: Peter, having · What happens: exceed, have, learn, rise, bow · To what, where: grand manner, fairy ceremonies, Wendy · 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 (Peter, having), 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 exceeding | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 exceeding | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 exceeding | aux |
| 4 | exceeding | exceed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 exceeding | xcomp |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 polite | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 having | punct |
| 8 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 learned | csubj |
| 9 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 exceeding | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 manner | det |
| 11 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 manner | amod |
| 12 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 learned | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 ceremonies | case |
| 14 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ceremonies | amod |
| 15 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 learned | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rose | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rose | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rose | nsubj |
| 19 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 learned | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bowed | cc |
| 21 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rose | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bowed | obl |
| 24 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 21 bowed | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 exceeding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exceed | could · progressive | Peter | polite property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | learn | past | having | the grand manner | fairy ceremonies | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manner=Topic | |||
| 4 | rise | past | Peter | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | bow | past | Peter not said here | Wendy | beautifully property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to she=Pivot |
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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