Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 283
Not one of them could fly an inch, though even Michael was in words of two syllables, and Peter did not know A from Z.
Who acts: one, Michael, Peter · What happens: fly, be, not know · To what, where: inch, words, A, Z
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 (one, Michael, 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 fly | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 one | nmod |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 fly | aux |
| 6 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 inch | det |
| 8 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fly | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 words | punct |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 words | mark |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 Michael | advmod |
| 12 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 words | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 words | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 words | case |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fly | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 syllables | case |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 syllables | nummod |
| 18 | syllables | syllable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 words | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 know | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 know | cc |
| 21 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 know | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 know | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 know | advmod |
| 24 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fly | parataxis |
| 25 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 know | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 Z | case |
| 27 | Z | z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 know | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | could | one of thoughts | a inch | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location inch=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Michael | words | of two syllables | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | Peter | A | Z | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer a=Stimulus |
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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