Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 89
His careless manner had gone at last, his eyes were sparkling, and a tingle went through them every time they touched his body.
Who acts: careless manner, eyes, tingle · What happens: go, sparkle, touch · To what, where: last, body
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 (careless manner, eyes, tingle), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 manner | nmod:poss |
| 2 | careless | careless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 manner | amod |
| 3 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 last | case |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gone | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sparkling | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sparkling | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sparkling | aux |
| 12 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 gone | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tingle | det |
| 16 | tingle | tingle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | parataxis |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | obl |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 touched | nsubj |
| 23 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 time | acl:relcl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 body | nmod:poss |
| 25 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 touched | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | Peter's careless manner | last | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location | ||||
| 2 | sparkle | past · progressive | Peter's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | a tingle | time | through eyes = eye | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through they=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | touch | past | eyes = eye | Peter's body | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme body=Co-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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