Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 256
Nana knew that kind of breathing, and she tried to drag herself out of Liza’s clutches.
Who acts: Nana, Liza · What happens: know, try, drag, clutch · To what, where: kind, Nana, clutches
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, Liza), 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 | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 kind | det |
| 4 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 breathing | case |
| 6 | breathing | breathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kind | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tried | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tried | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tried | nsubj |
| 10 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 drag | mark |
| 12 | drag | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tried | xcomp |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 drag | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 clutches | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 clutches | case |
| 16 | Liza | Liza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 clutches | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Liza | case |
| 18 | clutches | clutch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 drag | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Nana | that kind of breathing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer kind=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | try | past | Nana | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | drag not said to happen | to-infinitive | Nana not said here | Nana | Liza's clutches | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent herself=Theme out clutch=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | clutch | Liza | nom clutch «act transitive»: 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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