Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 54
They carry tomahawks and knives, and their naked bodies gleam with paint and oil.
Who acts: eyes, naked bodies · What happens: carry, gleam · To what, where: tomahawks
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 (eyes, naked bodies), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tomahawks | tomahawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carry | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 knives | cc |
| 5 | knives | knife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tomahawks | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gleam | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gleam | cc |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 9 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bodies | amod |
| 10 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gleam | nsubj |
| 11 | gleam | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 carry | parataxis |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 paint | case |
| 13 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gleam | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 oil | cc |
| 15 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 paint | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | eyes = eye | tomahawks and knives | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomahawk=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gleam | present | eyes's naked bodies | with paint and oil | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with paint=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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