Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 106

She waited in a new frock because the old one simply would not meet; but he never came.

Who acts: lot, old one, Wendy · What happens: wait, not meet, not come · To what, where: new frock

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 (lot, old one, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 frock	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 frock	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 frock	amod
6	frock	frock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waited	obl
7	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	10 one	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waited	obl
11	simply	simply	ADV	_	14 meet	advmod
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 meet	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 meet	advmod
14	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 one	acl:relcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 came	advmod
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waited	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	wait	past	lot	a new frock	because the old one	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in frock=Location
2	not meet	would	the old one not said here		simply property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not come	past	Wendy			vn escape-51.1-1 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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