Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 169
Their first thought was that if Peter was not going he had probably changed his mind about letting them go.
Who acts: Peter, others, departure · What happens: not go, change, let, go, think, mind · To what, where: first thought, others
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, others, departure), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nmod:poss |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 thought | amod |
| 3 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 changed | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 changed | aux:pass |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 changed | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 going | mark |
| 7 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 going | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 going | advmod |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 changed | advcl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 changed | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 changed | aux |
| 13 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 14 changed | advmod |
| 14 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mind | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 changed | obj |
| 17 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 18 letting | mark |
| 18 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 changed | advcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 letting | obj |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 letting | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | Peter | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | change | past · perfect · passive | others's first thought | probably property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | gerund | others = other | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | others = other not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | think | others = other | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | mind | departure | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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