Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 288
He did not quite mean to let go, but he did it, and immediately he was borne across the room.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: not mean, let, go, do, bear · To what, where: inch, Peter, room
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 mean | advmod |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 mean | advmod |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 let | mark |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 mean | xcomp |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 did | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 did | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 did | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 did | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 borne | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 borne | cc |
| 16 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 19 borne | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 borne | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 borne | aux:pass |
| 19 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 did | conj |
| 20 | across | across | ADP | _ | 22 room | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 room | det |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 borne | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mean | past · do-support | Peter | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | Peter not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | past | Peter | inch | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | bear | past · passive | Peter | the room | immediately property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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