Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 112
For a little longer she tried for his sake not to have growing pains; and she felt she was untrue to him when she got a prize for general knowledge.
Who acts: power · What happens: try, not have, grow, feel, be, get · To what, where: pains, Wendy, prize
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 (power), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 longer | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 longer | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 tried | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tried | nsubj |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 sake | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sake | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tried | obl |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 have | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tried | parataxis |
| 13 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 have | xcomp |
| 14 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 growing | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 felt | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tried | conj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 untrue | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 untrue | cop |
| 21 | untrue | untrue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 felt | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 untrue | obl |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 got | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 got | nsubj |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 felt | advcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 prize | det |
| 28 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 got | obj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 knowledge | case |
| 30 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 knowledge | amod |
| 31 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 got | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | power | for Wendy's sake; long property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not have | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | pains | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pain=Theme | |||||
| 4 | feel | past | power | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | is | past | power | Wendy | untrue property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | get | past | power | a prize | for general knowledge | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent prize=Theme for knowledge=Source |
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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