Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 318
Once again the stars blew the window open, and that smallest star of all called out:
Who acts: stars · What happens: blow, call out · To what, where: window, smallest star
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 (stars), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 again | advmod |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 blew | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stars | det |
| 4 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 blew | nsubj |
| 5 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 window | det |
| 7 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blew | obj |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blew | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 star | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 star | cc |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 star | det |
| 12 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 star | amod |
| 13 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blew | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 star | obl |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 star | acl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 called | compound:prt |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | the stars | the window | again | that smallest star obl; open property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent window=Patient | ||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | that smallest star not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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