Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 46
He thought of hopping off in a comic sort of way till he was out of sight of her, and then never going near the spot any more.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: think, hop off, be, not go, sort · To what, where: comic sort, sight, spot, way
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 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 4 hopping | mark |
| 4 | hopping | hop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | advcl |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 hopping | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sort | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sort | det |
| 8 | comic | comic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sort | amod |
| 9 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hopping | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sort | nmod |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 sight | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sight | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sight | cop |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 sight | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sight | case |
| 17 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hopping | advcl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sight | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 going | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 going | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 going | advmod |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 going | advmod |
| 24 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | conj |
| 25 | near | near | ADP | _ | 27 spot | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 spot | det |
| 27 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 going | obl |
| 28 | any | any | ADV | _ | 29 more | advmod |
| 29 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 going | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Peter | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hop off | gerund | Peter not said here | a comic sort of way | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sort=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Peter | sight | of voice | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not go | gerund | Peter not said here | the spot | then | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near spot=Location | |||
| 5 | sort | way | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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