Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 92
Sometimes they hung in the air until Peter had beaten on it with his fists.
Who acts: eyes, Peter · What happens: hang, beat · To what, where: air
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, Peter), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 hung | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hung | nsubj |
| 3 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 air | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obl |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 beaten | mark |
| 8 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 beaten | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 beaten | aux |
| 10 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 hung | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 beaten | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 fists | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fists | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fists | fist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 beaten | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | eyes = eye | the air | sometimes property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | |||
| 2 | beat | past · perfect | Peter | air | with Peter's fists | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fist=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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