Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 185
Now Nibs rose from the ground, and the others thought that his staring eyes still saw the wolves.
Who acts: Nibs, others, staring · What happens: rise, think, see · To what, where: ground, wolves · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Nibs, others, staring), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rose | advmod |
| 2 | Nibs | nib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 ground | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 others | det |
| 10 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 saw | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 staring | nmod:poss |
| 14 | staring | staring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 staring | conj |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 saw | advmod |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wolves | det |
| 19 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 saw | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Nibs | the ground | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ground=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the others | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | victory's staring and eyes | the wolves | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Stimulus |
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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