Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 176
However, they had set off in such a hurry that there was not a pocket between the four of them.
What happens: set off, not be · To what, where: fairies, hurry, pocket
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: 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hurry | case |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 hurry | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hurry | det |
| 10 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 pocket | mark |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 pocket | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 pocket | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pocket | det |
| 16 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hurry | conj | ||
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 four | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 four | det |
| 19 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 pocket | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 four | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past · perfect · passive | fairies = fairy | such hurry and a pocket | however property | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | not is a | past | a pocket | between the four of fairies | tree rules |
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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