Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 36
“They flew away,” Wendy continued, “to the Neverland, where the lost children are.”
Who acts: children, Wendy, lost children · What happens: fly away, continue, lose, be
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 (children, Wendy, lost children), 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 | _ | 3 flew | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 continued | advcl |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
| 7 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | nsubj |
| 8 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Neverland | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Neverland | punct |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Neverland | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Neverland | det |
| 13 | Neverland | Neverland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 are | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 are | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 children | det |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 children | amod |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 are | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Neverland | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Neverland | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away in a quote | past | children = child | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | Wendy | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | does in a quote | present | the lost children | vn exist-47.1 «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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