Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 169
It just goes out of itself when she falls asleep, same as the stars.”
Who acts: light, Wendy · What happens: go out, fall · To what, where: 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 (light, Wendy), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 goes | advmod |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 itself | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 itself | case |
| 6 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 goes | obl |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 falls | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 falls | nsubj |
| 9 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 same | csubj |
| 10 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 falls | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 same | punct |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 goes | parataxis |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 stars | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stars | det |
| 15 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 same | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 same | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | present | light | light | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | present | Wendy | asleep 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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