Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 102
Panic-stricken at the thought of losing Wendy the lost boys had advanced upon her threateningly.
Who acts: thought · What happens: lose, advance · To what, where: Wendy, lost boys
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 (thought), 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 | Panic | panic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stricken | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 stricken | punct |
| 3 | stricken | stricken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 thought | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thought | det |
| 6 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stricken | obl |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 losing | mark |
| 8 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 thought | acl |
| 9 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 losing | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boys | det |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 boys | amod |
| 12 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 advanced | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 advanced | aux |
| 14 | advanced | advance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 losing | advcl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 advanced | obl |
| 17 | threateningly | threateningly | ADV | _ | 14 advanced | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stricken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | gerund | the thought not said here | Wendy | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wendy=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | advance | past · perfect · passive | the lost boys | upon Panic; threateningly property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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