Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 90
They were now over the fearsome island, flying so low that sometimes a tree grazed their feet.
Who acts: eyes, tree · What happens: be, fly, graze · To what, where: fearsome island, feet
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 (eyes, tree), 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 | 7 island | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 island | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 island | advmod |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 island | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 island | det |
| 6 | fearsome | fearsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 island | amod |
| 7 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flying | punct |
| 9 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 island | nmod |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 low | advmod |
| 11 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 flying | xcomp |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 grazed | mark |
| 13 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 grazed | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grazed | nsubj |
| 16 | grazed | graze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 low | advcl |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 feet | nmod:poss |
| 18 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 grazed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 island | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | eyes = eye | the fearsome island | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fly | gerund | low property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | graze | past | a tree | eyes's feet | sometimes property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=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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