Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 165
For a moment the circle of light was broken, and something gave Peter a loving little pinch.
Who acts: something · What happens: break, give · To what, where: circle, loving little pinch, Peter
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 (something), 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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broken | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 circle | det |
| 5 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 light | case |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 circle | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 broken | aux:pass |
| 9 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 broken | conj |
| 14 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 pinch | det |
| 16 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pinch | amod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pinch | amod |
| 18 | pinch | pinch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past · passive | the circle of light | moment | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | past | something | a loving little pinch | Peter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent peter=Recipient pinch=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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