Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 22
Next comes Nibs, the gay and debonair, followed by Slightly, who cuts whistles out of the trees and dances ecstatically to his own tunes.
Who acts: gay · What happens: come, follow, cut, whistle, dance · To what, where: Nibs, gay, trees, own tunes
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 (gay), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 2 comes | advmod |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Nibs | nib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 comes | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gay | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gay | det |
| 6 | gay | gay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cuts | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 debonair | cc |
| 8 | debonair | debonair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gay | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 followed | punct |
| 10 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 gay | acl:relcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Slightly | case |
| 12 | Slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 10 followed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cuts | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 cuts | nsubj |
| 15 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 comes | parataxis |
| 16 | whistles | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cuts | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 trees | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 trees | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 trees | det |
| 20 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 whistles | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dances | cc |
| 22 | dances | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cuts | conj |
| 23 | ecstatically | ecstatically | ADV | _ | 22 dances | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 tunes | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 tunes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tunes | amod |
| 27 | tunes | tune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 dances | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Nibs | next property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nib=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | participle | the gay and debonair not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by slightly=Location | |||||
| 3 | cut | present | the gay and debonair | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | whistle | present | the gay and debonair not said here | the trees | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out tree=Location | ||||
| 5 | dance | present | the gay and debonair not said here | Bell's own tunes | ecstatically property | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to tune=Trajectory |
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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