Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 22
“They were married, you know,” explained Wendy, “and what do you think they had?”
Who acts: you, Wendy, others · What happens: marry, know, explain, think, have · To what, where: others · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, Wendy, others), 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 | _ | 4 married | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | aux:pass |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 explained | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
| 10 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 explained | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 think | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 think | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 think | cc |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 think | obj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 think | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 think | nsubj |
| 18 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 explained | ccomp |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 think | ccomp |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry in a quote | past · passive | others = other | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | past | Wendy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | past | others = other | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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