Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 146
There came also children’s voices, for so safe did the boys feel in their hiding-place that they were gaily chattering.
Who acts: boys, hiding place · What happens: come, do, feel, be · To what, where: voices, gaily chattering
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 (boys, hiding place), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 came | expl |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 voices | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 children | case |
| 6 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 did | mark |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 safe | advmod |
| 10 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 did | xcomp |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boys | det |
| 13 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 feel | nsubj |
| 14 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 did | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 place | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 place | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 hiding | punct |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feel | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 chattering | nsubj |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 chattering | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 chattering | cop |
| 23 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 chattering | amod |
| 24 | chattering | chattering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 place | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | children's voices | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location voice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past | safe property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | feel | present | the boys | in boys's hiding place | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in place=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | boys's hiding place | gaily chattering | 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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