Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 62

“Can it be—yes—no—it is—the fair Wendy!”

What happens: be · To what, where: fair Wendy

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: 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 be	punct
2	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 be	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 is	cop
5	—	-	PUNCT	_	4 be	punct
6	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 be	discourse
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 is	punct
8	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	11 is	discourse
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 no	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 is	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 Wendy	cop
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 is	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Wendy	det
14	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Wendy	amod
15	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 Wendy	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 Wendy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the fair Wendy					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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