Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 151
On this occasion, however, she did not give Peter his draught, for just as she had prepared it, she saw a look on his face that made her heart sink.
Who acts: Wendy, face · What happens: not give, prepare, see, make · To what, where: draught, Peter, occasion, look, face, heart sink
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, face), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 occasion | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 occasion | det |
| 3 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 occasion | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 give | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 give | advmod |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 draught | nmod:poss |
| 13 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 prepared | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 prepared | mark |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 prepared | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 prepared | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 prepared | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 prepared | aux |
| 20 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 give | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 prepared | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saw | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 saw | nsubj |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 prepared | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 look | det |
| 26 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saw | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 face | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 face | nmod:poss |
| 29 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 look | nmod |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 made | nsubj |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 face | acl:relcl |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 made | obj |
| 33 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sink | compound |
| 34 | sink | sink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | past · do-support | Wendy | invitation's draught | Peter | this occasion | however property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent peter=Recipient draught=Theme on occasion=Asset | |
| 2 | prepare | past · perfect | Wendy | draught | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Wendy | a look | invitation's face | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer look=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | make | past | invitation's face | heart sink | Wendy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary sink=Product |
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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