Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 190
Wendy fell on her knees, but her arms were extended toward Peter.
Who acts: Wendy · What happens: fall, extend · To what, where: knees, arms
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), 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 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 knees | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 knees | nmod:poss |
| 5 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fell | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 extended | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 extended | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 arms | nmod:poss |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 extended | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 extended | aux:pass |
| 11 | extended | extend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fell | conj |
| 12 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 13 Peter | case |
| 13 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 extended | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Wendy | Wendy's knees | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | ||||
| 2 | extend | past · passive | Wendy's arms | toward Peter | vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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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