Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 44
Now I want you to consider the feelings of the unhappy parents with all their children flown away.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: want, consider, fly away · To what, where: you, feelings, children
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 (I, you), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 want | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 want | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 consider | mark |
| 6 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 feelings | det |
| 8 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 consider | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 parents | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 parents | det |
| 11 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 parents | amod |
| 12 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 feelings | nmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 children | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 children | det:predet |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 children | nmod:poss |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 parents | nmod |
| 17 | flown | fly | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 children | acl |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 flown | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | you | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | consider not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the feelings of the unhappy parents with parents's children | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent feeling=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | fly away | participle | parents's children not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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