Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 71
That was the story, and they were as pleased with it as the fair narrator herself.
Who acts: That, descendants · What happens: be · To what, where: story
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 (That, descendants), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 story | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 story | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pleased | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pleased | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pleased | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pleased | cop |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 pleased | case |
| 10 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | parataxis |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pleased | obl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 narrator | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 narrator | det |
| 15 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 narrator | amod |
| 16 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pleased | obl |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 narrator | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | the story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | descendants = descendant | with story; as the fair narrator mummy; pleased property | 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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