Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 35
He overlooked it in his haste to tell the glorious tidings.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: overlook, tell · To what, where: mouth, haste, glorious tidings · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 overlooked | nsubj |
| 2 | overlooked | overlook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 overlooked | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 haste | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 haste | nmod:poss |
| 6 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 overlooked | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 tell | mark |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 overlooked | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tidings | det |
| 10 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tidings | amod |
| 11 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tell | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 overlooked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overlook | past | Peter | mouth | Peter's haste | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | the glorious tidings | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tiding=Recipient |
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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