Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 296

They were not nearly so elegant as Peter, they could not help kicking a little, but their heads were bobbing against the ceiling, and there is almost nothing so delicious as that.

Who acts: charges, heads, nothing · What happens: not be, not help, kick, bob, be · To what, where: little, ceiling

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 (charges, heads, nothing), 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 elegant	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 elegant	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 elegant	advmod
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 elegant	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 elegant	advmod
6	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 Peter	case
8	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 elegant	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 help	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 help	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 help	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 help	advmod
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 elegant	conj
14	kicking	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 help	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 little	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 kicking	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bobbing	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 bobbing	cc
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 heads	nmod:poss
20	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bobbing	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 bobbing	aux
22	bobbing	bob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 help	advcl
23	against	against	ADP	_	25 ceiling	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ceiling	det
25	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bobbing	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 is	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 is	cc
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 is	expl
29	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 elegant	conj
30	almost	almost	ADV	_	31 nothing	advmod
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 is	nsubj
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 delicious	advmod
33	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 nothing	amod
34	as	as	ADP	_	35 that	case
35	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 delicious	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 elegant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	charges = charge			as Peter; elegant, nearly property	tree rules
2	not help	could	charges = charge				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	kick not said to happen	gerund	charges = charge not said here	a little			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent little=Patient
4	bob	past · progressive	charges's heads		the ceiling		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against ceiling=Location
5	be	present	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «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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