Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 43
So they all stood back, and let him see, and after he had looked for a little time he did not know what to do next.
Who acts: others, Peter · What happens: stand back, let, see, look, not know, do · To what, where: Peter, little time · 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 (others, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 stood | advmod |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 let | cc |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stood | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 13 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 16 looked | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 looked | aux |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 stood | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looked | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 know | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 know | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 know | advmod |
| 24 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 time | acl:relcl |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 do | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 know | ccomp |
| 28 | next | next | ADV | _ | 27 do | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand back | past | others = other | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | others = other not said here | Peter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | Peter not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | look | past · perfect | Peter | time | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | not know | past · do-support | Peter | a little time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | next property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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