Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 217
By and by she tucked them up in the great bed in the home under the trees, but she herself slept that night in the little house, and Peter kept watch outside with drawn sword, for the pirates could be heard carousing far away and the wolves were on the prowl.
Who acts: room, Peter, pirates, wolves · What happens: tuck up, sleep, keep, watch, draw, hear · To what, where: feet, great bed, little house, pirates, prowl
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 (room, Peter, pirates, wolves), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 and | case |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tucked | cc |
| 3 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 tucked | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tucked | nsubj |
| 5 | tucked | tuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tucked | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 tucked | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bed | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bed | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bed | amod |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tucked | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 home | det |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tucked | obl |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 trees | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trees | det |
| 17 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tucked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 slept | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 slept | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 slept | nsubj |
| 21 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 she | conj |
| 22 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tucked | conj |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 night | det |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 slept | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 house | amod |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 slept | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 kept | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 kept | cc |
| 31 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 kept | nsubj |
| 32 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tucked | conj |
| 33 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 kept | xcomp |
| 34 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 33 watch | advmod |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 sword | case |
| 36 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 sword | amod |
| 37 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 watch | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 heard | punct |
| 39 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 44 heard | mark |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 pirates | det |
| 41 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 heard | aux |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 heard | aux:pass |
| 44 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 watch | parataxis |
| 45 | carousing | carouse | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 heard | xcomp |
| 46 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 47 away | advmod |
| 47 | away | away | ADV | _ | 45 carousing | advmod |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 prowl | cc |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 wolves | det |
| 50 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 prowl | nsubj |
| 51 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 prowl | cop |
| 52 | on | on | ADP | _ | 54 prowl | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 prowl | det |
| 54 | prowl | prowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 carousing | conj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tucked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tuck up | past | room | feet = foot | the great bed | in the home; under the trees | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme in bed=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | sleep | past | room | the little house | night | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location | |||
| 3 | keep | past | Peter | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | watch | infinitive | Peter not said here | with drawn sword; outside property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | draw | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | hear | could · passive | the pirates | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | carouse | gerund | the pirates not said here | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is | past | the wolves | the prowl | tree rules |
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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