Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 37
Still no sound, except a little thud from Tootles as he dropped on his knees.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: drop · To what, where: knees
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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 3 sound | advmod |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 sound | det |
| 3 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thud | punct |
| 5 | except | except | ADP | _ | 8 thud | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thud | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thud | amod |
| 8 | thud | thud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sound | conj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Tootles | case |
| 10 | Tootles | tootle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thud | nmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 dropped | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dropped | nsubj |
| 13 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thud | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 knees | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 knees | nmod:poss |
| 16 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dropped | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | Peter | Peter's knees | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on knee=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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