Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 17
“Oh dear,” sighed Wendy.
What happens: sigh · To what, where: Wendy
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: 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 sighed | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 sighed | discourse |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Oh | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sighed | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | Wendy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wendy=Topic |
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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