Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 24

When playing Follow my Leader, Peter would fly close to the water and touch each shark’s tail in passing, just as in the street you may run your finger along an iron railing.

Who acts: Peter, you · What happens: play, follow, fly, touch, run · To what, where: Leader, tail, passing, finger, street

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, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	2 playing	advmod
2	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 fly	advcl
3	Follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 playing	xcomp
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 Leader	nmod:poss
5	Leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Follow	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 playing	punct
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 fly	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fly	aux
9	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 fly	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fly	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 touch	cc
15	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fly	conj
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 shark	det
17	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tail	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 shark	case
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 touch	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 passing	case
21	passing	passing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 touch	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 run	punct
23	just	just	ADV	_	24 as	advmod
24	as	as	ADV	_	30 run	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 street	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 street	det
27	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 run	obl
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 run	nsubj
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 run	aux
30	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fly	parataxis
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 finger	nmod:poss
32	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 run	obj
33	along	along	ADP	_	36 railing	case
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 railing	det
35	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 railing	compound
36	railing	railing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 run	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	gerund	Peter not said here				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	follow	infinitive	Peter not said here	my Leader			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme
3	fly	would	Peter			to the water result; close property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to water=Result
4	touch	present	Peter not said here	each shark's tail	passing		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tail=Co-Theme
5	run	may	you	your finger	the street	along a iron railing	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent finger=Theme in street=Trajectory along railing=Initial_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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