Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 105

Certainly he did not want a change, but he looked at her uncomfortably, blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.

Who acts: Wendy, you · What happens: not want, look, blink, know, be · To what, where: change · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy, you), 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	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 want	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 change	det
7	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 looked	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 looked	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 looked	nsubj
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	parataxis
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 looked	obl
14	uncomfortably	uncomfortably	ADV	_	11 looked	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 blinking	punct
16	blinking	blink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 looked	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
19	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 blinking	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sure	punct
21	like	like	ADP	_	24 sure	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 sure	nsubj
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 sure	advmod
24	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 know	ccomp
25	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	28 awake	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 awake	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 awake	cop
28	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sure	ccomp
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 asleep	cc
30	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 awake	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	Wendy	a change	certainly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot change=Theme
2	look	past	Wendy		at Peter; uncomfortably property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
3	blink	gerund	Wendy not said here			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	know	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	Wendy		awake property	tree rules
6	be		Wendy not said here			tree rules

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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