Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 68

There was a step above, and Wendy, you may be sure, was the first to recognize it.

Who acts: step, you, Wendy · What happens: be, recognize · To what, where: step

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 (step, you, Wendy), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 step	det
4	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	above	above	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 first	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 first	cc
8	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 first	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sure	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 sure	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 sure	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 sure	cop
13	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Wendy	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Wendy	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 first	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 first	det
17	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 was	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 recognize	mark
19	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 first	acl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 recognize	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a step		there	above property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	may	you			sure property	tree rules
3	is	past	Wendy			first property	tree rules
4	recognize	to-infinitive		step			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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