Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 72
They flung themselves down on the sward, close to their underground home.
Who acts: boys · What happens: fling down · To what, where: boys, sward
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 (boys), 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 flung | nsubj |
| 2 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 flung | obj |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 flung | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 sward | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sward | det |
| 7 | sward | sward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flung | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 close | punct |
| 9 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sward | amod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 home | nmod:poss |
| 12 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 home | amod |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 close | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling down | past | boys = boy | boys = boy | the sward | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on sward=Destination |
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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