Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 9
They were flying over the sea before this thought began to disturb Wendy seriously.
Who acts: John, thought · What happens: fly, begin, disturb · To what, where: sea, Wendy
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 (John, thought), 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 | 3 flying | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flying | aux |
| 3 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flying | obl |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 began | mark |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 thought | det |
| 9 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 began | nsubj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flying | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 disturb | mark |
| 12 | disturb | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 disturb | obj |
| 14 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 12 disturb | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past · progressive | John | the sea | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Location | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | this thought | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | disturb | to-infinitive | this thought not said here | Wendy | seriously property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wendy=Experiencer |
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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