Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 153

Unfortunately she could not fly so slowly as they, and so she had to go round and round them in a circle in which they moved as in a halo.

Who acts: Tink, John · What happens: not fly, have, go round, round, move · To what, where: John, circle

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 (Tink, 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	Unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	_	5 fly	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fly	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fly	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 fly	advmod
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 slowly	advmod
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 fly	advmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 they	case
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fly	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 had	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fly	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 go	mark
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
17	round	round	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 round	cc
19	round	round	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 go	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 round	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 circle	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 circle	det
23	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 round	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 moved	obl
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 moved	nsubj
27	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 circle	acl:relcl
28	as	as	ADP	_	31 halo	case
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 halo	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 halo	det
31	halo	halo	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 moved	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not fly	could	Tink			as John; slowly, unfortunately property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	Tink				tree rules
3	go round	to-infinitive	Tink not said here			round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	round	infinitive	Tink not said here	John	a circle		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	move	past	John		a circle	as a halo	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in which=Trajectory

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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