Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 13

His way was to pursue birds who had food in their mouths suitable for humans and snatch it from them; then the birds would follow and snatch it back; and they would all go chasing each other gaily for miles, parting at last with mutual expressions of good-will.

Who acts: way, birds, John · What happens: be, have, snatch, follow, snatch back, go · To what, where: food, mouths, way, last

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, birds, John), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 way	nmod:poss
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pursue	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pursue	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pursue	mark
5	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pursue	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 birds	acl:relcl
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 mouths	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mouths	nmod:poss
12	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obl
13	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mouths	amod
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 humans	case
15	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 suitable	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 snatch	cc
17	snatch	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 had	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 snatch	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 snatch	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 follow	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 follow	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 birds	det
24	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 follow	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 follow	aux
26	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pursue	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 snatch	cc
28	snatch	snatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 follow	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 snatch	obj
30	back	back	ADV	_	28 snatch	advmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 go	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 go	cc
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 go	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 go	aux
35	all	all	ADV	_	36 go	advmod
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pursue	conj
37	chasing	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 go	xcomp
38	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	40 gaily	nsubj
39	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 gaily	amod
40	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 chasing	ccomp
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 miles	case
42	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 gaily	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 parting	punct
44	parting	part	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 chasing	conj
45	at	at	ADP	_	46 last	case
46	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 parting	obl
47	with	with	ADP	_	49 expressions	case
48	mutual	mutual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 expressions	amod
49	expressions	expression	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 parting	obl
50	of	of	SCONJ	_	53 will	mark
51	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 will	amod
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 good	punct
53	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 expressions	acl:relcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pursue	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Peter's way				pursue property	tree rules
2	have	past	birds	food	John's mouths			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
3	snatch	present	birds not said here	way			from John	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from they=Source
4	follow	would	the birds			then		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	snatch back	infinitive	the birds not said here	way				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	go	would	John				all property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	chase	gerund	John not said here					vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
8	part	gerund	John not said here		last		with mutual expressions	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with expression=Co-Patient

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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