Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 36
“I nipped a bit out of that eagle’s mouth pretty neatly, Wendy.”
Who acts: John · What happens: nip · To what, where: bit, mouth
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 nipped | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 nipped | nsubj |
| 3 | nipped | nip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nipped | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 mouth | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mouth | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 eagle | det |
| 9 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 eagle | case |
| 11 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nipped | obl |
| 12 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 13 neatly | advmod |
| 13 | neatly | neatly | ADV | _ | 3 nipped | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Wendy | punct |
| 15 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nipped | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nipped | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 nipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nip in a quote | past | John | a bit | that eagle's mouth | Wendy obl; neatly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out mouth=Trajectory |
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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