Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 125

“It liked my arm so much, Smee, that it has followed me ever since, from sea to sea and from land to land, licking its lips for the rest of me.”

Who acts: hair · What happens: like, follow, lick · To what, where: arm, hair, lips

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 (hair), 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 liked	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 liked	nsubj
3	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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 liked	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	3 liked	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Smee	punct
9	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 liked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 followed	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 followed	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 followed	nsubj:pass
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 followed	aux
14	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 liked	parataxis
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 followed	obj
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 since	advmod
17	since	since	ADV	_	14 followed	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sea	punct
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 sea	case
20	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 followed	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 sea	case
22	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sea	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 land	cc
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 land	case
25	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sea	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 land	case
27	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 land	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 licking	punct
29	licking	lick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 liked	advcl
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 lips	nmod:poss
31	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 licking	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 rest	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 rest	det
34	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 licking	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 rest	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 liked	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like in a quote	past	hair	my arm	Smee obl	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot arm=Theme
2	follow in a quote	present · perfect · passive		hair	since property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme i=Attribute
3	lick in a quote	gerund	hair not said here	hair's lips	for the rest of me	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source

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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