Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 49
As they pass, Skylights lurches clumsily against him, ruffling his lace collar; the hook shoots forth, there is a tearing sound and one screech, then the body is kicked aside, and the pirates pass on.
Who acts: Skylights, hook, tearing sound, pirates · What happens: pass, lurch, ruffle, shoot, be, tear · To what, where: lace collar, body
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 (Skylights, hook, tearing sound, pirates), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 pass | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pass | nsubj |
| 3 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lurches | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pass | punct |
| 5 | Skylights | skylight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lurches | nsubj |
| 6 | lurches | lurch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | clumsily | clumsily | ADV | _ | 6 lurches | advmod |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lurches | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ruffling | punct |
| 11 | ruffling | ruffle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 lurches | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 collar | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 collar | compound |
| 14 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ruffling | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 shoots | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hook | det |
| 17 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shoots | nsubj |
| 18 | shoots | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lurches | conj |
| 19 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 18 shoots | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 is | punct |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 is | expl |
| 22 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 shoots | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 sound | det |
| 24 | tearing | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 sound | amod |
| 25 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 is | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 screech | cc |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 screech | nummod |
| 28 | screech | screech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sound | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 kicked | punct |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 kicked | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 body | det |
| 32 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 kicked | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 kicked | aux:pass |
| 34 | kicked | kick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 shoots | conj |
| 35 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 34 kicked | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 pass | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 pass | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 pirates | det |
| 39 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 pass | nsubj |
| 40 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 kicked | conj |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 pass | compound:prt |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lurches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present | Skylights = skylight | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lurch | present | Skylights | against Hook; clumsily property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against he=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | ruffle | gerund | Skylights not said here | Hook's lace collar | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus collar=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | shoot | present | the hook | forth property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | does | present | a tearing sound and one screech | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | tear | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | kick | present · passive | the body | then | aside property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient | |||
| 8 | pass on | present | the pirates | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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