Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 121
“Peter flung my arm,” he said, wincing, “to a crocodile that happened to be passing by.”
Who acts: Peter, crocodile · What happens: fling, say, wince, happen, pass by · To what, where: arm, crocodile · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, crocodile), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 flung | punct |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 flung | nsubj |
| 3 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 arm | nmod:poss |
| 5 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flung | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flung | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 flung | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wincing | punct |
| 11 | wincing | wince | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 crocodile | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 crocodile | punct |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 crocodile | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 crocodile | det |
| 16 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wincing | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 happened | nsubj |
| 18 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 crocodile | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 passing | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 passing | aux |
| 21 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 happened | advcl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 passing | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 crocodile | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 wincing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling in a quote | past | Peter | my arm | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wince | gerund | a crocodile | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | happen in a quote | past | a crocodile | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pass by in a quote | to-infinitive · progressive | a crocodile not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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