Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 41
Then he decided not to take his medicine, so as to grieve Wendy.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: decide, not take, grieve, medicine · To what, where: medicine, Wendy
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 decided | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 decided | nsubj |
| 3 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 take | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 decided | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 medicine | nmod:poss |
| 8 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grieve | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 grieve | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 grieve | mark |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 grieve | mark |
| 13 | grieve | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 take | conj |
| 14 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 grieve | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | Peter | then | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not take not said to happen | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | Peter's medicine | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grieve | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | Wendy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wendy=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | medicine | Peter | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=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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