Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 289
“I flewed!” he screamed while still in mid-air.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: flew, scream · To what, where: mid-air · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 flewed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 flewed | nsubj |
| 3 | flewed | flew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 flewed | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 flewed | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 screamed | nsubj |
| 7 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flewed | conj |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 still | mark |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 screamed | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 mid-air | case |
| 11 | mid-air | mid-air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 screamed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flewed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flew in a quote | past | Peter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | past | Peter | mid-air | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mid-air=Location |
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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