Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 60
“Years have rolled by, and who is this elegant lady of uncertain age alighting at London Station?”
Who acts: Years, uncertain age · What happens: roll, be, alight · To what, where: elegant lady, London Station
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 (Years, uncertain age), 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 rolled | punct |
| 2 | Years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rolled | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rolled | aux |
| 4 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 rolled | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lady | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lady | cc |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lady | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lady | cop |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 lady | det |
| 11 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lady | amod |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rolled | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 age | case |
| 14 | uncertain | uncertain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 age | amod |
| 15 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lady | nmod |
| 16 | alighting | alight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 age | acl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 Station | case |
| 18 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Station | compound |
| 19 | Station | Station | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 alighting | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 rolled | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll in a quote | present · perfect | Years | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this elegant lady | of uncertain age | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | alight in a quote | gerund | uncertain age not said here | London Station | tree rules |
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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