Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 175

She had to take his hand, and there was no indication that he would prefer a thimble.

Who acts: Peter, indication, face · What happens: have, take, be, prefer · To what, where: hand, thimble

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, indication, 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	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 take	mark
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 was	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 was	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 indication	det
12	indication	indication	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 prefer	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 prefer	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 prefer	aux
16	prefer	prefer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 indication	acl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 thimble	det
18	thimble	thimble	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 prefer	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	Peter			tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	face's hand		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	be	past	no indication		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	prefer	would	face	a thimble		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thimble=Stimulus

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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