Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 62
Wendy and John and Michael stood on tip-toe in the air to get their first sight of the island.
Who acts: Wendy, arrows · What happens: stand, get, sight · To what, where: tip toe, first sight, island
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 (Wendy, 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 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 John | cc |
| 3 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Wendy | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Michael | cc |
| 5 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Wendy | conj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 toe | case |
| 8 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 toe | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 tip | punct |
| 10 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 air | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 air | det |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stood | advcl |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sight | nmod:poss |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 sight | amod |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 island | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 island | det |
| 21 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sight | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Wendy and John and Michael | tip toe | in the air | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on toe=Location | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Wendy and John and Michael not said here | arrows's first sight of the island | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sight | arrows = arrow | the island | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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