Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 160
As they rattled up the little house they broke into song themselves:
Who acts: branches · What happens: rattle up, break · To what, where: little house, branches, song
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 (branches), 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 | _ | 3 rattled | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rattled | nsubj |
| 3 | rattled | rattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 broke | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 rattled | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rattled | obj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 broke | nsubj |
| 9 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 song | case |
| 11 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broke | obl |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 broke | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rattle up | past | branches = branch | the little house | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break | past | branches = branch | branches = branch | into song result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into song=Result |
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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