Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 25
It was at this tragic moment that they heard a sound which made the heart of every one of them rise to his mouth.
Who acts: pity, dreams, sound, heart · What happens: be, hear, make, rise · To what, where: sound, mouth
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 (pity, dreams, sound, heart), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 moment | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 moment | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 moment | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 moment | det |
| 5 | tragic | tragic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 moment | amod |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 heard | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 moment | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sound | det |
| 11 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sound | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heart | det |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rise | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heart | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 one | nmod |
| 21 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 mouth | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rise | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | pity | at this tragic moment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | dreams = dream | a sound | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make | past | a sound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | rise | present | the heart of every one of dreams | silence's mouth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mouth=Initial_Location |
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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