Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 103

And then John would rub his eyes and mutter, “It is true, we did fly.”

Who acts: John, step, we · What happens: rub, mutter, be, fly · To what, where: eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, step, we), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 rub	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 rub	advmod
3	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rub	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 rub	aux
5	rub	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rub	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mutter	cc
9	mutter	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 rub	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 true	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 true	punct
12	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 true	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 true	cop
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rub	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fly	punct
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 fly	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fly	aux
18	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 true	parataxis
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rub	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 rub	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	rub	would	John	Michael's eyes	then		tree rules
2	mutter speech: assert	infinitive	John not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	step			true property	tree rules
4	fly in a quote	past · do-support	we				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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