Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 311
In a tremble they opened the street door.
Who acts: pirates · What happens: open · To what, where: street door, tremble
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 (pirates), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 tremble | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tremble | det |
| 3 | tremble | tremble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 opened | nsubj |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 7 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 door | compound |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | pirates = pirate | the street door | a tremble | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent door=Theme in tremble=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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