Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 83
“Long ago,” he said, “I thought like you that my mother would always keep the window open for me, so I stayed away for moons and moons and moons, and then flew back; but the window was barred, for mother had forgotten all about me, and there was another little boy sleeping in my bed.”
Who acts: window, mother, little boy · What happens: say, think, keep, stay away, fly back, bar · To what, where: window, bed · 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 (window, mother, little boy), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ago | advmod |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ago | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ago | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 keep | mark |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 keep | aux |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 keep | advmod |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 window | det |
| 21 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | obj |
| 22 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 keep | xcomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 open | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 stayed | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 stayed | advmod |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 stayed | nsubj |
| 28 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 stayed | advmod |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 moons | case |
| 31 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 stayed | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 moons | cc |
| 33 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 moons | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 moons | cc |
| 35 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 moons | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 flew | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 flew | cc |
| 38 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 flew | advmod |
| 39 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 stayed | conj |
| 40 | back | back | ADV | _ | 39 flew | advmod |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 barred | punct |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 barred | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 window | det |
| 44 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 barred | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 barred | aux:pass |
| 46 | barred | bar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 forgotten | punct |
| 48 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 51 forgotten | mark |
| 49 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 forgotten | nsubj |
| 50 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 forgotten | aux |
| 51 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 46 barred | parataxis |
| 52 | all | all | ADV | _ | 54 me | advmod |
| 53 | about | about | ADP | _ | 54 me | case |
| 54 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 forgotten | obl |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 was | punct |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 was | cc |
| 57 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 58 was | expl |
| 58 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 59 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 61 boy | det |
| 60 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 boy | amod |
| 61 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 was | nsubj |
| 62 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 61 boy | acl |
| 63 | in | in | ADP | _ | 65 bed | case |
| 64 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 65 bed | nmod:poss |
| 65 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 sleeping | obl |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 67 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | window | ago property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | window | like you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | would | my mother | the window | always, open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Theme | |||
| 4 | stay away in a quote | past | window | for moons and moons and moons; away property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fly back in a quote | past | window not said here | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bar in a quote | past · passive | the window | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | forget in a quote | past · perfect | mother | about window | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | be in a quote | past | another little boy | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | sleep in a quote | gerund | another little boy not said here | my bed | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
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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