Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 138
Crediting them with a nobler feeling Wendy melted.
Who acts: Crediting · What happens: credit, melt · To what, where: boys
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 (Crediting), 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 | Crediting | credit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 melted | csubj |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Crediting | obj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 feeling | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 feeling | det |
| 5 | nobler | noble | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 feeling | amod |
| 6 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Crediting | obl |
| 7 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 feeling | appos |
| 8 | melted | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 melted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | credit | gerund | boys = boy | with a nobler feeling | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Recipient with feeling=Theme | ||||
| 2 | melt | past | Crediting | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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