Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 56
Twice did Peter raise the arrow, and twice did his hand fall.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: raise, do · To what, where: arrow, hand fall
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 | Twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 raise | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 raise | aux |
| 3 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 raise | nsubj |
| 4 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 arrow | det |
| 6 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raise | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 did | cc |
| 9 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 did | advmod |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 raise | parataxis |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fall | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fall | compound |
| 13 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 did | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 raise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past · do-support | Peter | the arrow | twice property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | past | Peter's hand fall | twice property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=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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