Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 61

Indeed a million golden arrows were pointing it out to the children, all directed by their friend the sun, who wanted them to be sure of their way before leaving them for the night.

Who acts: million golden arrows, sun, arrows · What happens: point out, direct, want, be, leave · To what, where: island, children, arrows

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 (million golden arrows, sun, arrows), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 pointing	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 million	det
3	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 arrows	nummod
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 arrows	amod
5	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pointing	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pointing	aux
7	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pointing	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	7 pointing	compound:prt
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 children	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 children	det
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pointing	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 directed	punct
14	all	all	ADV	_	15 directed	advmod
15	directed	direct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 pointing	conj
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 friend	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 friend	nmod:poss
18	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 directed	obl:agent
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun	det
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 friend	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wanted	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 wanted	nsubj
23	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sun	acl:relcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wanted	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	27 sure	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 sure	cop
27	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 wanted	xcomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 way	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 way	nmod:poss
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sure	obl
31	before	before	SCONJ	_	32 leaving	mark
32	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 sure	advcl
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 leaving	obj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 night	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 night	det
36	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 leaving	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pointing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	point out	past · progressive	million golden arrows	island	the children		indeed property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to child=Recipient
2	direct	participle	million golden arrows not said here				all property	vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	want	past	the sun	arrows = arrow				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
4	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	arrows = arrow not said here				of arrows's way; sure property	tree rules
5	leave	gerund	arrows = arrow not said here	arrows = arrow		night		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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