Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 40

They could now fly strongly, though they still kicked far too much; but if they saw a cloud in front of them, the more they tried to avoid it, the more certainly did they bump into it.

Who acts: clouds · What happens: fly, kick, see, try, avoid, bump · To what, where: much, cloud, front

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 (clouds), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fly	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	aux
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 fly	advmod
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	4 fly	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kicked	punct
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 kicked	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kicked	nsubj
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 kicked	advmod
10	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	conj
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 much	advmod
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kicked	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 saw	cc
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 saw	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cloud	det
20	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 front	case
22	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cloud	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 front	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 tried	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 more	det
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 tried	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tried	nsubj
29	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 avoid	mark
31	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 tried	xcomp
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 avoid	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 bump	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 more	det
35	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 bump	advmod
36	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	39 bump	advmod
37	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 bump	aux
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 bump	nsubj
39	bump	bump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fly	conj
40	into	into	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 bump	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	could	clouds = cloud			now	strongly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kick	past	clouds = cloud	much		still		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent much=Patient
3	see a condition, not said to happen	past	clouds = cloud	a cloud	front of mouths			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloud=Stimulus
4	try	past	clouds = cloud					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	avoid not said to happen	to-infinitive	clouds = cloud not said here	front				vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location
6	bump	past · do-support	clouds = cloud		front		certainly property	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=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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