Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 287
They were all on their beds, and gallant Michael let go first.
Who acts: shoulders, beds, Michael · What happens: be, gallant, let, go · To what, where: beds
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 (shoulders, beds, Michael), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 beds | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 beds | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 beds | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 beds | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 beds | nmod:poss |
| 6 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gallant | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gallant | cc |
| 9 | gallant | gallant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 beds | acl:relcl |
| 10 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 let | nsubj |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gallant | ccomp |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | shoulders = shoulder | shoulders's beds | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | gallant | infinitive | shoulders's beds not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | let | past | Michael | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | Michael not said here | first property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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