Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 61
“Oh dear, oh dear,” cried Wendy, “I’m sure I sometimes think that spinsters are to be envied.”
Who acts: I · What happens: cry, be, think, envy · To what, where: spinsters · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 3 dear | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 dear | discourse |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dear | punct |
| 5 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 dear | discourse |
| 6 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dear | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dear | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dear | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ’m | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 ’m | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 ’m | nsubj |
| 14 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | conj |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ’m | xcomp |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 think | nsubj |
| 17 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 think | advmod |
| 18 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sure | ccomp |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 envied | mark |
| 20 | spinsters | spinster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 envied | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 envied | aux:pass |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 envied | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 envied | aux:pass |
| 24 | envied | envy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 think | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | I | sure property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | sometimes property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | envy in a quote | present · passive | spinsters | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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