Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 157
She had to run about after him, though it was rather undignified.
Who acts: Peter, room · What happens: have, run about, be
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 (Peter, room), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 run | mark |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 run | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 run | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 undignified | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 undignified | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 undignified | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 undignified | cop |
| 12 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 13 undignified | advmod |
| 13 | undignified | undignified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 run | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Peter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | run about | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | after departure | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | room | undignified property | 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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