Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 190
Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.
Who acts: terrified three, island, same island · What happens: do, learn, believe, come · To what, where: difference
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 (terrified three, island, same island), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 learn | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 three | det |
| 5 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 three | amod |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 learn | nsubj |
| 7 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 difference | det |
| 9 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 learn | obj |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 island | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 island | det |
| 12 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 difference | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 believe | mark |
| 14 | make | make | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 believe | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 believe | punct |
| 16 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 island | acl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 come | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 island | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 island | amod |
| 20 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 come | nsubj |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 believe | conj |
| 22 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 come | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the terrified three not said here | sharply, thus property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | learn | present | the terrified three | the difference | between a island | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difference=Topic | |||
| 3 | believe | infinitive | a island not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | come | present | the same island | true property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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