Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 181
That seemed to be everything, and an awkward pause followed.
Who acts: That, awkward pause · What happens: seem, be, follow · To what, where: everything
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 (That, awkward pause), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 everything | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 everything | cop |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 followed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 followed | cc |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pause | det |
| 9 | awkward | awkward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pause | amod |
| 10 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 followed | nsubj |
| 11 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | That | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | That not said here | everything | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | a awkward pause | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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