Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 254
Listen to their gentle breathing.”
Who acts: you, beds · What happens: listen, breathe
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 (you, beds), 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 | Listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 breathing | case |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 breathing | nmod:poss |
| 4 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 breathing | amod |
| 5 | breathing | breathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Listen | obl |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listen | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | imperative | you not said here | to beds's gentle breathing | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to breathing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | breathe | beds = bed | nom breathing «act intransitive»: poss=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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