Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 21
He could sleep in the air without falling, by merely lying on his back and floating, but this was, partly at least, because he was so light that if you got behind him and blew he went faster.
Who acts: Peter, this, you · What happens: sleep, fall, lie, float, be, get · To what, where: air, back, 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 (Peter, this, you), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sleep | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sleep | aux |
| 3 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 air | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sleep | obl |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 falling | mark |
| 8 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sleep | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lying | punct |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 lying | mark |
| 11 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 12 lying | advmod |
| 12 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 falling | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 back | nmod:poss |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lying | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 floating | cc |
| 17 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 falling | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 least | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 least | cc |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 least | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 least | cop |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 least | punct |
| 23 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 25 least | advmod |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 least | case |
| 25 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 sleep | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 light | punct |
| 27 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 31 light | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 light | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 light | cop |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 light | advmod |
| 31 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sleep | conj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 got | mark |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 got | mark |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 got | nsubj |
| 35 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 light | advcl |
| 36 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 got | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 blew | cc |
| 39 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 got | conj |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 went | nsubj |
| 41 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 blew | ccomp |
| 42 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 41 went | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | could | Peter | the air | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall | gerund | Peter not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | Peter not said here | Peter's back | merely property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location | |||
| 4 | float | gerund | Peter not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | this | least, partly property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | Peter | light | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | get | past | you | behind Peter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | blow | past | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | go | past | Peter | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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