Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 15
Certainly they did not pretend to be sleepy, they were sleepy; and that was a danger, for the moment they popped off, down they fell.
Who acts: bread, that · What happens: not pretend, be, pop off, fall · To what, where: danger
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 (bread, that), 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 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 pretend | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pretend | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pretend | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 pretend | advmod |
| 5 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sleepy | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sleepy | cop |
| 8 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pretend | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sleepy | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sleepy | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sleepy | cop |
| 12 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sleepy | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 danger | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 danger | cc |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 danger | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 danger | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 danger | det |
| 18 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pretend | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 popped | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 moment | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 moment | det |
| 22 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 popped | obl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 popped | nsubj |
| 24 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pretend | parataxis |
| 25 | off | off | ADV | _ | 24 popped | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fell | punct |
| 27 | down | down | ADV | _ | 29 fell | advmod |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fell | nsubj |
| 29 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 popped | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pretend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pretend | past · do-support | bread | certainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | bread not said here | sleepy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | bread | sleepy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | that | a danger | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pop off | past | bread | moment | off property | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 6 | fall | past | bread | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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