Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 136

By this time they were dejected, not merely because they were about to lose her, but also because they felt that she was going off to something nice to which they had not been invited.

Who acts: boys, Tink · What happens: deject, not be, lose, feel, go off, not invite · To what, where: boys, Tink

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, Tink), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dejected	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dejected	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dejected	aux:pass
6	dejected	deject	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 about	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 about	advmod
9	merely	merely	ADV	_	13 about	advmod
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 about	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 about	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 about	cop
13	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dejected	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 lose	mark
15	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 about	xcomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lose	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 felt	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 felt	cc
19	also	also	ADV	_	22 felt	advmod
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 felt	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 felt	nsubj
22	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dejected	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 going	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 going	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 going	aux
26	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 felt	advcl
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 going	compound:prt
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 something	case
29	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 going	obl
30	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 something	amod
31	to	to	ADP	_	30 nice	fixed
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 invited	obj
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 invited	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 invited	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 invited	advmod
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 invited	aux:pass
37	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 something	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dejected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	deject	past · passive		boys = boy	time		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	not is	past	boys = boy			about, merely property	tree rules
3	lose	to-infinitive	boys = boy not said here	Tink			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
4	feel	past	boys = boy				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	go off	past · progressive	Tink			to something	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
6	not invite	past · perfect · passive		boys = boy			tree rules

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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