Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 148
They looked around them and noted the holes in the seven trees.
Who acts: pirates · What happens: look, note · To what, where: holes, seven trees
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 (pirates), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | around | around | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 noted | cc |
| 6 | noted | note | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 holes | det |
| 8 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 noted | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 trees | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 trees | det |
| 11 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 trees | nummod |
| 12 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 noted | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | pirates = pirate | around boys = boy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | note | past | pirates = pirate not said here | the holes | the seven trees | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hole=Topic |
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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