Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 118

He ceased to look at her, but even then she would not let go of him.

Who acts: Wendy, lady · What happens: cease, look, not let, go

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy, lady), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:2220): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ceased	nsubj
2	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 look	mark
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ceased	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 look	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 let	cc
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 then	advmod
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 let	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 let	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 let	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 let	advmod
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ceased	conj
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 go	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ceased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	cease	past	Wendy			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	look	to-infinitive	Wendy not said here		at lady	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
3	not let	would	lady	then		tree rules
4	go	infinitive	lady not said here		of Wendy	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of he=Initial_Location

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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