Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 68
“‘See, dear brothers,’ says Wendy pointing upwards, ‘there is the window still standing open.
Who acts: Wendy, window · What happens: see, say, point, be, stand · To what, where: dear brothers · 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 (Wendy, window), 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 | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 See | punct |
| 3 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brothers | punct |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brothers | amod |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 See | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 See | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 See | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 pointing | nsubj |
| 11 | pointing | point | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 says | ccomp |
| 12 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 11 pointing | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 is | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 is | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 is | expl |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 pointing | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 window | det |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 is | nsubj |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 standing | advmod |
| 20 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 window | acl |
| 21 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 standing | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | infinitive | dear brothers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | point in a quote | gerund | Wendy | upwards property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | the window | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stand in a quote | gerund | the window not said here | still | open property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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