Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 7
A moment after the fairy’s entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.
Who acts: breathing, Peter, little stars · What happens: blow, drop in, breathe · To what, where: moment
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 (breathing, Peter, little 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 entrance | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fairy | det |
| 5 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entrance | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 fairy | case |
| 7 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moment | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 window | det |
| 9 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blown | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 blown | aux:pass |
| 11 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 blown | xcomp |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 breathing | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 breathing | det |
| 15 | breathing | breathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blown | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 stars | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stars | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stars | amod |
| 19 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 breathing | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dropped | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dropped | cc |
| 22 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 dropped | nsubj |
| 23 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 blown | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADV | _ | 23 dropped | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 blown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past · passive | the breathing of the little stars | a moment after the fairy's entrance | open property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | drop in | past | Peter | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | breathe | the little stars | nom breathing «act intransitive»: of=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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