Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 57

“You see,” Wendy said complacently, “our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time.”

Who acts: You, Wendy, heroine, mother, children · What happens: see, say, know, leave, fly back, stay away · To what, where: window · 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, heroine, mother), 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 see	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
6	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 see	ccomp
8	complacently	complacently	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knew	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 knew	punct
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 heroine	nmod:poss
12	heroine	heroine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 leave	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mother	det
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 leave	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 leave	aux
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 leave	advmod
19	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 knew	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 window	det
21	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 leave	obj
22	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 leave	xcomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 children	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 children	nmod:poss
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 leave	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 fly	mark
27	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 leave	advcl
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 fly	advmod
29	by	by	ADP	_	27 fly	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 stayed	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 stayed	advmod
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 stayed	nsubj
33	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 stayed	advmod
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 years	case
36	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 stayed	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 had	cc
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 stayed	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 time	det
40	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 time	amod
41	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 had	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present	You				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Wendy			complacently property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know in a quote	past	our heroine				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	leave in a quote	would	the mother	the window		for mother's children; always, open property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent window=Theme for child=Recipient
5	fly back in a quote	to-infinitive	the mother not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stay away in a quote	past	children = child		year	away property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	have in a quote	past	children = child not said here		time		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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