Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 153
“Her mouth opens,” cried a third, looking respectfully into it.
Who acts: mouth, third · What happens: open, cry, look · 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 (mouth, third), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 opens | punct |
| 2 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opens | nsubj |
| 4 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 opens | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 opens | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opens | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 third | det |
| 9 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looking | punct |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 cried | advcl |
| 12 | respectfully | respectfully | ADV | _ | 11 looking | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looking | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open in a quote | present | sound's mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | a third | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | a third not said here | into mouth; respectfully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into it=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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