Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 107

In her extremity an instinct told her to which of them to turn.

Who acts: instinct · What happens: tell, turn · To what, where: Panic, extremity · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (instinct), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 extremity	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 extremity	nmod:poss
3	extremity	extremity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 instinct	det
5	instinct	instinct	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 turn	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 turn	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 turn	mark
13	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	ccomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	a instinct		Panic	Panic's extremity			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	turn not said to happen	to-infinitive						of boys = boy	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to which=Source of they=Trajectory

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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