Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 144
It was an anxious moment when the glass thing was withdrawn.
Who acts: thing · What happens: be, withdraw · To what, where: anxious moment, glass thing
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 (thing), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 moment | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moment | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 4 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moment | amod |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 withdrawn | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 8 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thing | compound |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 withdrawn | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 withdrawn | aux:pass |
| 11 | withdrawn | withdraw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 moment | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | thing | a anxious moment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | withdraw | past · passive | the glass thing | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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