Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 27
This would spoil so completely the surprise to which Wendy and John and Michael are looking forward.
Who acts: This, Wendy · What happens: spoil, look · To what, where: surprise
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 (This, Wendy), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 spoil | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoil | aux |
| 3 | spoil | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 completely | advmod |
| 5 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 3 spoil | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 surprise | det |
| 7 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoil | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 looking | obl |
| 10 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 looking | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 John | cc |
| 12 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Wendy | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Michael | cc |
| 14 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Wendy | conj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 looking | aux |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 surprise | acl:relcl |
| 17 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 16 looking | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spoil | would | This | the surprise | completely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | present · progressive | Wendy and John and Michael | to the surprise; forward property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to which=Theme |
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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