Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 4
Overhead Tinker Bell shouted “Silly ass!” and darted into hiding.
Who acts: Overhead · What happens: shout, dart · To what, where: Silly ass, hiding
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 (Overhead), 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 | Overhead | Overhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 shouted | nsubj |
| 2 | Tinker | Tinker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Overhead | flat |
| 3 | Bell | Bell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 shouted | nsubj |
| 4 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ass | punct |
| 6 | Silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ass | amod |
| 7 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shouted | obj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 ass | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ass | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 darted | cc |
| 11 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shouted | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 hiding | case |
| 13 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 darted | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | Overhead | Silly ass | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Topic | ||||
| 2 | dart | past | Overhead not said here | hiding | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hiding=Destination |
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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