Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 136
Wendy and John had been taken aback somewhat at finding their father in the kennel.
What happens: take, find · To what, where: Wendy, father, kennel
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: 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 | 6 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 John | cc |
| 3 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Wendy | conj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 taken | aux:pass |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | aback | aback | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 taken | xcomp |
| 8 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 6 taken | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 10 finding | mark |
| 10 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 taken | advcl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finding | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 kennel | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kennel | det |
| 15 | kennel | kennel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finding | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect · passive | Wendy and John | aback, somewhat property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | find | gerund | words's father | the kennel | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Topic |
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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