Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 135
In the meantime the boys were gazing very forlornly at Wendy, now equipped with John and Michael for the journey.
Who acts: boys · What happens: gaze, equip
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 (boys), 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 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gazing | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boys | det |
| 5 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gazing | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gazing | aux |
| 7 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 forlornly | advmod |
| 9 | forlornly | forlornly | ADV | _ | 7 gazing | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Wendy | case |
| 11 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gazing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 equipped | punct |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 equipped | advmod |
| 14 | equipped | equip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 gazing | parataxis |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 John | case |
| 16 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 equipped | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Michael | cc |
| 18 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 John | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 journey | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 journey | det |
| 21 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 equipped | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gazing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past · progressive | the boys | at Wendy; in the meantime; forlornly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in meantime=Theme | ||||
| 2 | equip | participle | now | with John and Michael; for the journey | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with john=Theme |
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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