Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 182
In the black topper the light was completely hidden, and they flew on in silence.
Who acts: John · What happens: hide, fly on · To what, where: light, black topper, silence
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 topper | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 topper | det |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 topper | amod |
| 4 | topper | topper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hidden | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 light | det |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hidden | aux:pass |
| 8 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 9 hidden | advmod |
| 9 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 flew | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 flew | nsubj |
| 13 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hidden | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 flew | compound:prt |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 silence | case |
| 16 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · passive | the light | the black topper | completely property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in topper=Location | |||
| 2 | fly on | past | John | silence | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in silence=Location |
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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