Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 19
“The gentleman’s name,” Wendy continued, “was Mr. Darling, and her name was Mrs. Darling.”
Who acts: Wendy, name, gentleman · What happens: continue, be, name · To what, where: Mr. Darling, Mrs. Darling
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 (Wendy, name, gentleman), 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 | _ | 5 name | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gentleman | det |
| 3 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 gentleman | case |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 continued | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 name | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 name | punct |
| 8 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 continued | nsubj |
| 9 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Darling | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Darling | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Darling | cop |
| 13 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Darling | compound |
| 14 | Darling | darling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 continued | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Darling | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Darling | cc |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 name | nmod:poss |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Darling | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Darling | cop |
| 20 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Darling | compound |
| 21 | Darling | darling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 continued | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 continued | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Wendy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | Mr. Darling | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | Wendy's name | Mrs. Darling | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name in a quote | the gentleman | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | name in a quote | Wendy | nom name «communication 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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