Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 150

Of course it was only water, but it was out of a bottle, and she always shook the bottle and counted the drops, which gave it a certain medicinal quality.

Who acts: course, Wendy, drops · What happens: be, shake, count, give · To what, where: bottle, drops

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 (course, Wendy, drops), 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	_	6 water	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 water	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 water	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 water	advmod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shook	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bottle	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 bottle	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bottle	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bottle	cop
11	out	out	ADP	_	14 bottle	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 bottle	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bottle	det
14	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shook	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 shook	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 shook	nsubj
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 shook	advmod
19	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bottle	det
21	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shook	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 counted	cc
23	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 shook	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 drops	det
25	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 counted	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gave	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 gave	nsubj
28	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 drops	acl:relcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gave	obj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 quality	det
31	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 quality	amod
32	medicinal	medicinal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 quality	amod
33	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gave	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	course			of water but a bottle	tree rules
2	is	past	course		a bottle		tree rules
3	shake	past	Wendy	the bottle		always property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient
4	count	past	Wendy not said here	the drops			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Theme
5	give	past	the drops	bottle			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient quality=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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