Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 284
“Michael’s kite,” Peter said without interest, but next moment he had seized the tail, and was pulling the kite toward him.
Who acts: Peter, Michael · What happens: say, seize, pull, kite · To what, where: next moment, kite · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Peter, Michael), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 kite | punct |
| 2 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 kite | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Michael | case |
| 4 | kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kite | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 kite | punct |
| 7 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 interest | case |
| 10 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seized | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 seized | cc |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 moment | amod |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seized | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seized | aux |
| 17 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tail | det |
| 19 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seized | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pulling | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pulling | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 pulling | aux |
| 23 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 kite | det |
| 25 | kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pulling | obj |
| 26 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pulling | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | without interest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | seize | past · perfect · passive | next moment | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pull | past · progressive | Peter not said here | the kite | toward Michael | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kite=Theme | |||
| 4 | kite in a quote | Michael | nom kite «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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