Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 64
Their tongues are hanging out, they are hungry to-night.
Who acts: tongues · What happens: hang out, be
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 (tongues), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 tongues | nmod:poss |
| 2 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hanging | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hanging | aux |
| 4 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 hanging | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hungry | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hungry | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hungry | cop |
| 9 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hanging | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 to | punct |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hungry | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hanging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang out | present · progressive | redskins's tongues | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | tongues = tongue | night | hungry property | tree rules |
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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