Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 30
Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: come, ring, drop · To what, where: crow, front
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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 ringing | mark |
| 4 | ringing | ring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 5 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ringing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dropped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dropped | cc |
| 8 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dropped | nsubj |
| 9 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 front | case |
| 11 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dropped | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 front | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ring | gerund | crow | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crow=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drop | past | Peter | front of dreams | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory |
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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