Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 315
If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story.
Who acts: we, story · What happens: breathe, be, sigh · To what, where: sigh, relief
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 (we, story), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 2 so | mark |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 delightful | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 delightful | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 delightful | advmod |
| 5 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 delightful | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 breathe | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 breathe | cc |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 breathe | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 breathe | aux |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 breathe | advmod |
| 13 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 delightful | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sigh | det |
| 15 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 breathe | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 relief | case |
| 17 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sigh | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 be | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 be | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 be | expl |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 be | aux |
| 22 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 breathe | conj |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 story | det |
| 24 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 be | nsubj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 delightful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | shall | we | a sigh of relief | all property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | future | no story | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sigh | relief | nom sigh «communication transitive»: of=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/4/315/