Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 79

While they talked they heard a distant sound.

Who acts: mothers · What happens: talk, hear · To what, where: distant sound

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 (mothers), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	3 talked	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talked	nsubj
3	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 talked	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sound	det
7	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sound	amod
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	mothers = mother						tree rules
2	hear	past	mothers = mother	a distant sound					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus

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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