Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 17
Poor kind Tootles, there is danger in the air for you to-night.
Who acts: Poor kind Tootles · What happens: be · To what, where: air
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 (Poor kind Tootles), 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Tootles | amod |
| 2 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Tootles | amod |
| 3 | Tootles | tootle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 is | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tootles | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 is | expl |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 air | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 to | punct |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | Poor kind Tootles | the air for you; there | night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location |
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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