Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 88
They had been flying apart, but they huddled close to Peter now.
Who acts: shadows · What happens: fly apart, huddle
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 (shadows), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flying | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flying | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 flying | aux |
| 4 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 4 flying | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 huddled | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 huddled | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 huddled | nsubj |
| 9 | huddled | huddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flying | conj |
| 10 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 huddled | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Peter | case |
| 12 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 close | obl |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 huddled | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly apart | past · perfect · progressive | shadows = shadow | apart property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | huddle | past | shadows = shadow | now | close property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=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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