Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 283
It had torn itself out of his hand and floated away.
What happens: tear, float away · To what, where: use, hand
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 torn | aux |
| 3 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 torn | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 torn | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 floated | cc |
| 10 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 torn | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 floated | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 torn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | past · perfect · passive | use | Michael's hand | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient itself=Result | ||||
| 2 | float away | past | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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