Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 103
Wendy was pained too to find that the past year was but as yesterday to Peter; it had seemed such a long year of waiting to her.
Who acts: past year, it, long year · What happens: pain, find, be, seem, wait · To what, where: Wendy, Peter, long year, lot · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (past year, it, long year), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:2340): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pained | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pained | aux:pass |
| 3 | pained | pain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 pained | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pained | advcl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 yesterday | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 year | det |
| 9 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 year | amod |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 yesterday | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 yesterday | cop |
| 12 | but | but | ADV | _ | 14 yesterday | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 yesterday | case |
| 14 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Peter | case |
| 16 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 yesterday | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 seemed | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seemed | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seemed | aux |
| 20 | seemed | seem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 pained | parataxis |
| 21 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 year | det:predet |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 year | det |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 year | amod |
| 24 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seemed | xcomp |
| 25 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 waiting | mark |
| 26 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 year | acl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seemed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pain | past · passive | Wendy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the past year | Peter | as yesterday | but property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | seem | past · perfect | it | such long year | lot | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | wait | gerund | such long year not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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