Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 173
Peter strode up and down, ordering finishing touches.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: stride, order · To what, where: finishing touches
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 (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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 strode | nsubj |
| 2 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 strode | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 down | cc |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 up | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ordering | punct |
| 7 | ordering | order | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 strode | advcl |
| 8 | finishing | finishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 touches | compound |
| 9 | touches | touch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ordering | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 strode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stride | past | Peter | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | order | gerund | Peter not said here | finishing touches | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent touch=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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