Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 152

For the moment they were feeling less eerie, because Tink was flying with them, and in her light they could distinguish each other.

Who acts: John, Tink · What happens: feel, fly, distinguish, light · To what, where: each, light

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 (John, Tink), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feeling	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 feeling	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feeling	aux
6	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 eerie	advmod
8	eerie	eerie	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feeling	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flying	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 flying	mark
11	Tink	Tink	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 flying	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 flying	aux
13	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 feeling	parataxis
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 flying	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 distinguish	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 distinguish	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 light	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 light	nmod:poss
20	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 distinguish	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 distinguish	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 distinguish	aux
23	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 feeling	conj
24	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	23 distinguish	obj
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 each	fixed
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 feeling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · progressive	John			moment	eerie property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	fly	past · progressive	Tink				with John	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	distinguish	could	John	each	Tink's light			vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute each=Theme
4	light		Tink					nom light «phenomenon 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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