Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 162
He burst into laughter, not hollow laughter now, but honest laughter.
Who acts: chimney · What happens: burst · To what, where: honest laughter, laughter
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 (chimney), 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 burst | nsubj |
| 2 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 laughter | case |
| 4 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 burst | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 laughter | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 laughter | advmod |
| 7 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 laughter | amod |
| 8 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughter | appos |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 burst | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laughter | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 laughter | cc |
| 12 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 laughter | amod |
| 13 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 burst | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | chimney | honest laughter | laughter | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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