Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 129

He sat down on a large mushroom, and now there was a quiver in his voice.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: sit down, be · To what, where: large mushroom, quiver, voice

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 mushroom	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mushroom	det
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mushroom	amod
7	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 quiver	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 quiver	cc
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 was	advmod
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 quiver	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 quiver	det
14	quiver	quiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 voice	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 voice	nmod:poss
17	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 quiver	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Peter			a large mushroom			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mushroom=Location
2	is a	past	Peter not said here	a quiver		Peter's voice			tree rules

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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