Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 265
In another moment she had burst into the dining-room of 27 and flung up her paws to heaven, her most expressive way of making a communication.
Who acts: Nana, expressive way · What happens: burst, fling up, make · To what, where: dining room, paws, heaven, communication
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, expressive way), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burst | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 burst | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 burst | aux |
| 6 | burst | burst | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 room | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 room | det |
| 9 | dining | dining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 room | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 dining | punct |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burst | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 27 | case |
| 13 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 room | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flung | cc |
| 15 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 burst | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 flung | compound:prt |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 paws | nmod:poss |
| 18 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flung | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 heaven | case |
| 20 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flung | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 way | punct |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 way | nmod:poss |
| 23 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 expressive | advmod |
| 24 | expressive | expressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 way | amod |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flung | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 making | mark |
| 27 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 way | acl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 communication | det |
| 29 | communication | communication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 making | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past · perfect | Nana | the dining room of 27 | moment | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | fling up | past | Nana not said here | Nana's paws | heaven | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent paw=Theme to heaven=Destination | |||
| 3 | make | gerund | Nana's expressive way not said here | a communication | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset communication=Product |
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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