Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 128

Of course Tink had been delighted to hear that Wendy was going; but she was jolly well determined not to be her courier, and she said so in still more offensive language.

Who acts: Wendy · What happens: be, hear, go, determine, not be, say · To what, where: Wendy, courier, offensive language · 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 (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	Of	of	ADP	_	3 Tink	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	Tink	Tink	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 delighted	obl
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 delighted	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 delighted	cop
6	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hear	mark
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 delighted	advcl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 going	mark
10	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 going	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 hear	ccomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 determined	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 determined	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 determined	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 determined	aux:pass
17	jolly	jolly	ADV	_	18 well	advmod
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 determined	advmod
19	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 delighted	conj
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 courier	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	24 courier	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 courier	cop
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 courier	nmod:poss
24	courier	courier	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 determined	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 delighted	conj
29	so	so	ADV	_	28 said	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	34 language	case
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 more	advmod
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 offensive	advmod
33	offensive	offensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 language	amod
34	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 said	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect				of Tink; delighted property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	past · progressive	Wendy				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	determine	past · passive		Wendy		well property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
5	not is a	to-infinitive		Wendy's courier			tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past	Wendy		offensive language		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in language=Manner

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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