Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 57
Bringing up the rear, the place of greatest danger, comes Tiger Lily, proudly erect, a princess in her own right.
Who acts: Bringing · What happens: bring up, come · To what, where: rear, Tiger Lily
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 (Bringing), 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 | Bringing | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 comes | csubj |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Bringing | compound:prt |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rear | det |
| 4 | rear | rear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bringing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 place | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rear | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 danger | case |
| 9 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 danger | amod |
| 10 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 place | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bringing | punct |
| 12 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Lily | compound |
| 14 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 comes | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 erect | punct |
| 16 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 17 erect | advmod |
| 17 | erect | erect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 comes | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 princess | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 erect | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 right | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 right | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 right | amod |
| 24 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 princess | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring up | gerund | the rear | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rear=Patient | |||||
| 2 | come | present | Bringing | Tiger Lily | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lily=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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