Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 266
Mr. and Mrs. Darling knew at once that something terrible was happening in their nursery, and without a good-bye to their hostess they rushed into the street.
Who acts: Mr., something · What happens: know, happen, rush · To what, where: nursery, street
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 (Mr., something), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Mrs. | cc |
| 3 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mr. | conj |
| 4 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Mrs. | flat |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 knew | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 happening | mark |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 happening | nsubj |
| 10 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 something | amod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 happening | aux |
| 12 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 knew | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 nursery | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 nursery | nmod:poss |
| 15 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 happening | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 rushed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 rushed | cc |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 22 bye | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bye | det |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bye | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 good | punct |
| 22 | bye | bye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rushed | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 hostess | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hostess | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hostess | hostess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bye | nmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 rushed | nsubj |
| 27 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knew | parataxis |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 street | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 street | det |
| 30 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rushed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Mr. and Mrs. | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | happen | past · progressive | something | Mr.'s nursery | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in nursery=Location | ||||
| 3 | rush | past | Mr. | into the street result; without a good bye to Mr.'s hostess | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into street=Result |
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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