Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 14

Secretly Wendy sympathised with them a little, but she was far too loyal a housewife to listen to any complaints against father.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: sympathis, be, listen · To what, where: little

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 (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	Secretly	secretly	ADV	_	3 sympathised	advmod
2	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sympathised	compound
3	sympathised	sympathis	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sympathised	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sympathised	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 loyal	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 loyal	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 loyal	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 loyal	cop
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 loyal	advmod
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 loyal	advmod
14	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sympathised	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 housewife	det
16	housewife	housewife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 loyal	nsubj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 listen	mark
18	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 housewife	acl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 complaints	case
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 complaints	det
21	complaints	complaint	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 listen	obl
22	against	against	ADP	_	23 father	case
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 complaints	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sympathised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sympathis	participle		a little	with pirates = pirate; secretly property	tree rules
2	is	past	Peter		far, loyal property	tree rules
3	listen	to-infinitive	Peter not said here		to any complaints against father	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to complaint=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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