Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 82
It came as the arrows went, leaving the island in gloom.
Who acts: fear, arrows · What happens: come, go, leave · To what, where: island, gloom
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 (fear, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 went | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 arrows | det |
| 5 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 leaving | punct |
| 8 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 went | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 island | det |
| 10 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leaving | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 gloom | case |
| 12 | gloom | gloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leaving | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | fear | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the arrows | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | the arrows not said here | the island | gloom | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent island=Theme in gloom=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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