Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 94
“At once,” Wendy replied resolutely, for the horrible thought had come to her: “Perhaps mother is in half mourning by this time.”
Who acts: Wendy, horrible thought, Perhaps mother · What happens: reply, come, be · To what, where: Wendy, half mourning · 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, horrible thought, Perhaps mother), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 replied | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 once | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 once | punct |
| 6 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | resolutely | resolutely | ADV | _ | 7 replied | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thought | det |
| 12 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thought | amod |
| 13 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 replied | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 come | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 mourning | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 mother | punct |
| 20 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mother | amod |
| 21 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mourning | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 mourning | cop |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 mourning | case |
| 24 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 25 mourning | compound |
| 25 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 time | det |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mourning | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 mourning | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 mourning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Wendy | resolutely property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | the horrible thought | Wendy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Perhaps mother | half mourning | time | 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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