Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 79

She flew on to his shoulder and pleaded, but he brushed her off.

Who acts: note, Tinker · What happens: fly on, plead, brush off · To what, where: note

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 (note, Tinker), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 flew	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 shoulder	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shoulder	nmod:poss
6	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pleaded	cc
8	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 brushed	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 brushed	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brushed	nsubj
12	brushed	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brushed	obj
14	off	off	ADP	_	12 brushed	compound:prt
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	fly on	past	note		to Tinker's shoulder result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to shoulder=Result
2	plead speech: request	past	note not said here			tree rules
3	brush off	past	Tinker	note		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent she=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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