Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 98
If she did not mind the parting, he was going to show her, was Peter, that neither did he.
Who acts: mother, dread, neither · What happens: not mind, go, show, be, do · To what, where: parting, mother, Peter
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 (mother, dread, neither), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 mind | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mind | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mind | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 mind | advmod |
| 5 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 going | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 parting | det |
| 7 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mind | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mind | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 going | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 going | aux |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 show | mark |
| 13 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 going | xcomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 show | iobj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Peter | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Peter | cop |
| 17 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 show | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 did | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 did | mark |
| 20 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 did | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 show | advcl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 did | nsubj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | mother | the parting | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parting=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | dread | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | dread not said here | mother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Peter | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do | past | neither | vn act-114-1 «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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