Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 92
She made herself rather cheap by inclining her face toward him, but he merely dropped an acorn button into her hand, so she slowly returned her face to where it had been before, and said nicely that she would wear his kiss on the chain around her neck.
Who acts: kiss, Peter, face · What happens: make, incline, drop, return, be, say · To what, where: kiss, face, acorn button, hand, chain · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (kiss, Peter, face), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 cheap | advmod |
| 5 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 made | xcomp |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 inclining | mark |
| 7 | inclining | incline | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 cheap | advcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 inclining | obj |
| 10 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 inclining | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dropped | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 dropped | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dropped | nsubj |
| 15 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 16 dropped | advmod |
| 16 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 button | det |
| 18 | acorn | acorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 button | compound |
| 19 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dropped | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 hand | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hand | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dropped | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 returned | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 returned | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 returned | nsubj |
| 26 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 27 returned | advmod |
| 27 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 face | nmod:poss |
| 29 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 returned | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 before | case |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 before | advmod |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 before | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 before | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 before | cop |
| 35 | before | before | ADV | _ | 27 returned | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 said | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 said | cc |
| 38 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 39 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 38 said | advmod |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 wear | mark |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 wear | nsubj |
| 42 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 wear | aux |
| 43 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 said | ccomp |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 kiss | nmod:poss |
| 45 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 wear | obj |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 chain | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 chain | det |
| 48 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 wear | obl |
| 49 | around | around | ADP | _ | 51 neck | case |
| 50 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 neck | nmod:poss |
| 51 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 chain | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | kiss | kiss | cheap property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Product | |||
| 2 | incline | gerund | kiss not said here | kiss's face | toward Peter | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent face=Patient toward he=Theme | |||
| 3 | drop | past | Peter | a acorn button | kiss's hand | merely property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent button=Theme into hand=Destination | ||
| 4 | return | past | kiss | kiss's face | slowly property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | past · perfect | face | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | nicely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | wear | would | kiss | Peter's kiss | the chain around kiss's neck | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent kiss=Source | |||
| 8 | kiss | Peter | nom kiss «act 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.
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