Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 117
Then Peter returned, and they saw at once that they would get no support from him.
Who acts: Peter, others · What happens: return, see, get · To what, where: support · 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 (Peter, others), 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 returned | advmod |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 saw | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 get | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 saw | ccomp |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 support | det |
| 15 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 get | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Peter | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | others = other | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | get | would | others = other | no support | from first | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent support=Theme from he=Source |
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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