Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 143

“Oh no,” said Wendy, rapidly thinking it out, “it will only mean having a few beds in the drawing-room; they can be hidden behind the screens on first Thursdays.”

Who acts: Wendy, middle · What happens: say, think out, mean, have, hide · To what, where: middle, few beds, drawing room, Nibs, screens · 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, middle), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
3	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 Oh	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thinking	punct
9	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	10 thinking	advmod
10	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 said	ccomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thinking	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	10 thinking	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mean	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 mean	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 mean	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 mean	aux
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 mean	advmod
18	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thinking	parataxis
19	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 mean	xcomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 beds	det
21	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 beds	amod
22	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 having	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	27 room	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 room	det
25	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 room	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 drawing	punct
27	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 having	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 hidden	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hidden	nsubj:pass
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 hidden	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 hidden	aux:pass
32	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 said	conj
33	behind	behind	ADP	_	35 screens	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 screens	det
35	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 hidden	obl
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 Thursdays	case
37	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	38 Thursdays	amod
38	Thursdays	thursday	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 hidden	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Wendy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	think out speech: other	gerund		middle		rapidly property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
3	mean in a quote	future	middle				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have not said to happen, in a quote	gerund	middle not said here	a few beds	the drawing room		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient
5	hide in a quote	can · passive		Nibs = nib	the screens	on first Thursdays	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient behind screen=Location

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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