Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 42
Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves.
Who acts: Peter, clouds · What happens: not be, feel
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, 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 moment | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 moment | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 moment | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 not | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 moment | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 moment | det |
| 8 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 felt | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 felt | nsubj |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 moment | parataxis |
| 13 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 14 lonely | advmod |
| 14 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 felt | xcomp |
| 15 | up | up | ADV | _ | 16 there | advmod |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 felt | advmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 themselves | case |
| 18 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 felt | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Peter | for the moment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | clouds = cloud | there | by clouds = cloud; lonely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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