Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 145
“Oh dear!” exclaimed Wendy, with her first real twinge of remorse, “it was quite time we came back.”
Who acts: Wendy, remorse, we · What happens: exclaim, be, come back, twinge · To what, where: time · Speech: someone speaks here
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, remorse, we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 dear | discourse |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 dear | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dear | punct |
| 6 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 twinge | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 twinge | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 twinge | nmod:poss |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 twinge | amod |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 twinge | amod |
| 13 | twinge | twinge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 remorse | case |
| 15 | remorse | remorse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 twinge | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 time | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 time | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 time | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 time | cop |
| 20 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 21 time | advmod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 twinge | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 time | acl:relcl |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 came | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | Wendy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | remorse | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come back in a quote | past | we | time not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme | ||||
| 4 | twinge | remorse | nom twinge «feeling intransitive»: of=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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