Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 75

But there was one there who knew better, and when Wendy finished he uttered a hollow groan.

Who acts: Wendy, window · What happens: be, know, finish, utter · To what, where: one, hollow groan

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 one	cop
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 knew	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 one	advmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 knew	nsubj
7	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 knew	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 finished	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 finished	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 finished	advmod
12	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 finished	nsubj
13	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 knew	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 uttered	nsubj
15	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 finished	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 groan	det
17	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 groan	amod
18	groan	groan	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 uttered	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		one	there		tree rules
2	know	past				good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	finish	past	Wendy				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	utter speech: other	past	window	a hollow groan			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent groan=Topic

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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