Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 91
As the pirates advanced, the quick eye of Starkey sighted Nibs disappearing through the wood, and at once his pistol flashed out.
Who acts: pirates, quick eye, Nibs, pistol · What happens: advance, sight, disappear, flash out · To what, where: Nibs, wood
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 (pirates, quick eye, Nibs, pistol), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 advanced | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pirates | det |
| 3 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 advanced | nsubj |
| 4 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sighted | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 advanced | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eye | det |
| 7 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eye | amod |
| 8 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sighted | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Starkey | case |
| 10 | Starkey | Starkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 eye | nmod |
| 11 | sighted | sight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Nibs | nib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sighted | obj |
| 13 | disappearing | disappear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 Nibs | acl |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 wood | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wood | det |
| 16 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 disappearing | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flashed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 flashed | cc |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 once | case |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 flashed | obl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 pistol | nmod:poss |
| 22 | pistol | pistol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flashed | nsubj |
| 23 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sighted | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 flashed | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advance | past | the pirates | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | sight | past | the quick eye of Starkey | Nibs | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nib=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | disappear | gerund | Nibs not said here | the wood | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | flash out | past | Hook's pistol | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
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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