Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 65
“Wendy, look at the turtles burying their eggs in the sand.”
Who acts: Wendy, turtles · What happens: look, bury · To what, where: eggs, sand
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, turtles), 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 | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 2 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 look | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wendy | punct |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 turtles | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 turtles | det |
| 7 | turtles | turtle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 look | obl |
| 8 | burying | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 turtles | acl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 burying | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sand | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sand | det |
| 13 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burying | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | Wendy | at the turtles | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at turtle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bury in a quote | gerund | the turtles not said here | turtles's eggs | the sand | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in sand=Destination |
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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