Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 207
Tootles excitedly fitted the arrow to his bow.
Who acts: Tootles · What happens: fit · To what, where: arrow, bow
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 (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 | Tootles | tootle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fitted | nsubj |
| 2 | excitedly | excitedly | ADV | _ | 3 fitted | advmod |
| 3 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 arrow | det |
| 5 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fitted | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 bow | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bow | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fitted | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | past | Tootles | the arrow | to Peter's bow goal; excitedly property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent arrow=Patient to bow=Goal |
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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