Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 107
But they tried to look brave when Wendy was brought up.
Who acts: mothers · What happens: try, look, bring up · To what, where: Wendy
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mothers), 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 tried | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 look | mark |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 look | xcomp |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 brought | advmod |
| 8 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | aux:pass |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 look | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 brought | compound:prt |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | mothers = mother | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | look not said to happen | to-infinitive | mothers = mother not said here | brave property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | bring up | past · passive | Wendy | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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