Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 157

“That’s Wendy,” she said, but still she was sure it was the dream.

Who acts: That, Wendy, fear, trick · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Wendy, dream · 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 (That, Wendy, fear, trick), 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	_	8 said	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 Wendy	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Wendy	cop
4	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Wendy	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 Wendy	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sure	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 sure	cc
11	still	still	ADV	_	14 sure	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sure	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sure	cop
14	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dream	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 dream	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dream	det
18	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sure	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	Wendy			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Wendy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	fear		still	sure property	tree rules
4	is a	past	trick	the dream			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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