Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 28
“Hide her,” they whispered, and gathered hastily around Wendy.
Who acts: dreams · What happens: hide, whisper, gather · To what, where: sound, Wendy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dreams), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hide | punct |
| 2 | Hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 whispered | ccomp |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Hide | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hide | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hide | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 whispered | nsubj |
| 7 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gathered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gathered | cc |
| 10 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 whispered | conj |
| 11 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 10 gathered | advmod |
| 12 | around | around | ADP | _ | 13 Wendy | case |
| 13 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 gathered | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide in a quote | infinitive | sound | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | dreams = dream | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | gather | past | dreams = dream not said here | Wendy | hastily property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=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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