Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 17
They were sorry for him, but sorrier for themselves, and when he took a step nearer them they turned from him.
Who acts: twins, Peter · What happens: be, take, turn
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 (twins, Peter), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sorry | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sorry | cop |
| 3 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sorry | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorrier | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 sorrier | cc |
| 8 | sorrier | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 sorry | parataxis |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 themselves | case |
| 10 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 sorrier | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 took | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sorrier | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 step | det |
| 17 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nearer | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 turned | advmod |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 nearer | obj |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 turned | nsubj |
| 21 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | advcl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 turned | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | twins = twin | for Peter; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Peter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | twins = twin | from Peter | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from he=Trajectory |
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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