Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 8

He had carried Tinker Bell part of the way, and his hand was still messy with the fairy dust.

Who acts: Peter, hand · What happens: carry, be · To what, where: Bell part

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, hand), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carried	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	aux
3	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	Tinker	Tinker	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Bell	compound
5	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 part	compound
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 part	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 messy	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 messy	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hand	nmod:poss
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 messy	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 messy	cop
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 messy	advmod
16	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 carried	advcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 dust	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dust	det
19	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dust	amod
20	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 messy	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past · perfect	Peter	Bell part of the way					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
2	is	past	Peter's hand				still	with the fairy dust; messy property	tree rules

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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