Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 192
John was treading the air mechanically, and Michael without knowing how to float was floating.
Who acts: John, Michael · What happens: tread, know, float · To what, where: air · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Michael), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:701): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 treading | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 treading | aux |
| 3 | treading | tread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 air | det |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 treading | obj |
| 6 | mechanically | mechanically | ADV | _ | 3 treading | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 floating | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 floating | cc |
| 9 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 floating | nsubj |
| 10 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 11 knowing | mark |
| 11 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 floating | advcl |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 float | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 float | mark |
| 14 | float | float | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 knowing | ccomp |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 floating | aux |
| 16 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 treading | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 treading | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tread | past · progressive | John | the air | mechanically property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location air=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | gerund | Michael not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | float | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | float | past · progressive | Michael | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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