Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 219
After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.
Who acts: Peter, unsteady fairies · What happens: fall, have, climb · To what, where: way
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, unsteady fairies), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fell | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 fairies | det |
| 10 | unsteady | unsteady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fairies | amod |
| 11 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 climb | mark |
| 14 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 had | xcomp |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 climb | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 way | nmod:poss |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 climb | obl |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 climb | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 orgy | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 orgy | det |
| 23 | orgy | orgy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 climb | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Peter | time | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | some unsteady fairies | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | climb | to-infinitive | some unsteady fairies not said here | Fairies's way | over Peter; from a orgy; home property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over he=Initial_Location from orgy=Destination |
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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