Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 271

Instead of troubling to answer him Peter flew around the room, taking the mantelpiece on the way.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: trouble, answer, fly, take · To what, where: Peter, room, mantelpiece, way

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 (Peter), 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	Instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	3 troubling	mark
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	troubling	trouble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 flew	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 answer	mark
5	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 troubling	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 answer	obj
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 flew	nsubj
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	around	around	ADP	_	11 room	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 taking	punct
13	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 flew	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mantelpiece	det
15	mantelpiece	mantelpiece	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taking	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 way	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taking	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	trouble	gerund	Peter not said here				tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	Peter not said here		Peter		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
3	fly	past	Peter			the room	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent around room=Location
4	take	gerund	Peter not said here	the mantelpiece		the way	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mantelpiece=Theme on way=Destination

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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