Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 242
Nana, who had been barking distressfully all the evening, was quiet now.
Who acts: Nana · What happens: bark, be
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 (Nana), 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 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 quiet | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 barking | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 barking | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 barking | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 barking | aux |
| 6 | barking | bark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Nana | acl:relcl |
| 7 | distressfully | distressfully | ADV | _ | 6 barking | advmod |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 evening | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 evening | det |
| 10 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 barking | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nana | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 quiet | cop |
| 13 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 quiet | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 quiet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bark | past · perfect · progressive | Nana | evening | distressfully property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | past | Nana | now | quiet property | tree rules |
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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