Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 68
And he clenched his teeth and did not cry, and soon his shadow was behaving properly, though still a little creased.
Who acts: Peter, shadow · What happens: clench, not cry, behave, crease, shadow · To what, where: teeth, little
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, shadow), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 clenched | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 clenched | nsubj |
| 3 | clenched | clench | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 clenched | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cry | cc |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cry | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 cry | advmod |
| 9 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 clenched | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 behaving | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 behaving | cc |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 behaving | advmod |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 14 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 behaving | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 behaving | aux |
| 16 | behaving | behave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 clenched | conj |
| 17 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 16 behaving | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 creased | punct |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 23 creased | mark |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 creased | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 little | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 creased | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | creased | crease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 behaving | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clenched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clench | past | Peter | Peter's teeth | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not cry speech: express | past · do-support | Peter not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | behave | past · progressive | Peter's shadow | properly, soon property | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | crease | participle | Peter's shadow not said here | a little | still | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | shadow | Peter | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/4/68/