Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 59
Observe how they pass over fallen twigs without making the slightest noise.
Who acts: you, things · What happens: observe, pass over, fall, make · To what, where: fallen twigs, slightest noise
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 (you, things), 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 | Observe | observe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 pass | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pass | nsubj |
| 4 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Observe | ccomp |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 fallen | advmod |
| 6 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 twigs | amod |
| 7 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pass | obj |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 making | mark |
| 9 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 pass | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 noise | det |
| 11 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 noise | amod |
| 12 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 making | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Observe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pass over | present | things = thing | fallen twigs | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme twig=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | fall | participle | over property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | gerund | things = thing not said here | the slightest noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |
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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