Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 193
Wendy, of course, had stood by taking no part in the fight, though watching Peter with glistening eyes; but now that all was over she became prominent again.
Who acts: all · What happens: stand, take, watch, glisten, be · To what, where: Wendy, part, fight, Peter
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all), 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 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 course | punct |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 course | case |
| 4 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wendy | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wendy | punct |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | aux |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 taking | mark |
| 9 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 stood | advcl |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 part | det |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taking | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 fight | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fight | det |
| 14 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taking | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 watching | punct |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 17 watching | mark |
| 17 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 taking | conj |
| 18 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 watching | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 20 | glistening | glisten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 eyes | amod |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 watching | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 became | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 became | cc |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 became | advmod |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 became | mark |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 became | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 became | cop |
| 28 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 30 became | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 became | nsubj |
| 30 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | conj |
| 31 | prominent | prominent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 became | xcomp |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 became | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · perfect · passive | Wendy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | take | gerund | no part | the fight | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in fight=Location | ||||
| 3 | watch | gerund | Peter | with glistening eyes | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peter=Theme | ||||
| 4 | glisten | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | all | now; again | become, prominent property | 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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