Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 147
But Wendy, who saw that they must break the joyous news more gently, had a better plan.
Who acts: Wendy, mothers · What happens: see, break, have · To what, where: joyous news, better plan
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, 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 | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 2 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 break | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 break | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 break | aux |
| 9 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 saw | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 news | det |
| 11 | joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 news | amod |
| 12 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 break | obj |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 gently | advmod |
| 14 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 9 break | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 plan | det |
| 18 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 plan | amod |
| 19 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Wendy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | break | must | mothers = mother | the joyous news | gently property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer news=Patient | |||
| 3 | have | past | Wendy not said here | a better plan | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=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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