Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 5
But with the coming of Peter, who hates lethargy, they are under way again: if you put your ear to the ground now, you would hear the whole island seething with life.
Who acts: redskins, Peter, you, whole island · What happens: come, hate, be, put, hear, seethe · To what, where: lethargy, way, ear, whole island
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 (redskins, Peter, you, whole island), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 way | cc |
| 2 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 4 coming | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 coming | det |
| 4 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 way | advcl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Peter | case |
| 6 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 coming | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hates | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 hates | nsubj |
| 9 | hates | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Peter | acl:relcl |
| 10 | lethargy | lethargy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hates | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 coming | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 way | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 way | cop |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 way | advmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 hear | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 put | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 put | nsubj |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 hear | advcl |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ear | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 ground | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ground | det |
| 25 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 put | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 hear | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 hear | aux |
| 30 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 way | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 island | det |
| 32 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 island | amod |
| 33 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hear | obj |
| 34 | seething | seethe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 island | acl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 life | case |
| 36 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 seething | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | redskins = redskin not said here | of Peter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of peter=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | hate | present | Peter | lethargy | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lethargy=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | redskins = redskin | way | again | tree rules | |||
| 4 | put a condition, not said to happen | present | you | your ear | now | to the ground | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ear=Goal | ||
| 5 | hear | would | you | the whole island | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | seethe | gerund | the whole island not said here | with life | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location with life=Theme |
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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