Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 285
Fortunately, as we have mentioned, one of his hands was messy with it, and he blew some on each of them, with the most superb results.
Who acts: we, one, Peter · What happens: mention, be, blow · To what, where: some, each
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 (we, one, 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 | Fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 13 messy | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fortunately | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 mentioned | mark |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 mentioned | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mentioned | aux |
| 6 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 messy | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mentioned | punct |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 messy | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hands | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 messy | cop |
| 13 | messy | messy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 messy | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 blew | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 blew | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 blew | nsubj |
| 19 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 messy | conj |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 blew | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 each | case |
| 22 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 blew | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 each | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 results | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 results | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 results | det |
| 28 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 29 superb | advmod |
| 29 | superb | superb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 results | amod |
| 30 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 blew | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 messy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | present · perfect | we | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | one of Peter's hands | with hand; fortunately, messy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | blow | past | Peter | some | each | with the superb results | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
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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