Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 102
I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.
Who acts: I, Peter, fairies, short time · What happens: expect, be, not live, seem · To what, where: fairies
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Peter, fairies, short time), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 expect | nsubj |
| 2 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 right | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | cop |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 expect | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 live | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 live | mark |
| 8 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 live | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 live | aux |
| 10 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 live | advmod |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 right | conj |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 live | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 little | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 little | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 little | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 little | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 little | advmod |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 expect | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 seems | mark |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 21 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seems | nsubj |
| 23 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 little | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 while | det |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 while | amod |
| 26 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seems | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seems | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Peter | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not live | present · do-support | fairies | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | fairies = fairy | little property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | seem | present | a short time | fairies = fairy | while | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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