Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 101
Then having given the necessary instructions to the redskins he returned to the home, where an unworthy scene had been enacted in his absence.
Who acts: dread · What happens: give, return, enact, absent · To what, where: necessary instructions, redskins, unworthy scene, absence
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dread), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 given | advmod |
| 2 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 given | aux |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 instructions | det |
| 5 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 instructions | amod |
| 6 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 given | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 redskins | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 redskins | det |
| 9 | redskins | redskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 given | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 returned | nsubj |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 home | det |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 enacted | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 enacted | advmod |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 scene | det |
| 18 | unworthy | unworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 scene | amod |
| 19 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 enacted | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 enacted | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 enacted | aux:pass |
| 22 | enacted | enact | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 home | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 absence | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 absence | nmod:poss |
| 25 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 enacted | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund · perfect | the necessary instructions | the redskins | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme to redskin=Recipient | |||
| 2 | return | past | dread | to the home result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result | ||||
| 3 | enact | past · perfect · passive | a unworthy scene | dread's absence | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | absent | dread | nom absence «state 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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