Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 113

But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.

Who acts: years, boys, Wendy, Peter, woman · What happens: come, go, bring, meet, be, not be · To what, where: careless boy, married woman, woman, toys, box

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 (years, boys, Wendy, Peter), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 came	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 years	det
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 bringing	mark
8	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 went	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
10	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bringing	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 met	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 met	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 met	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 met	nsubj
16	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
17	again	again	ADV	_	16 met	advmod
18	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 woman	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 woman	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 woman	det
21	married	married	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 met	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 more	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 more	cc
25	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 more	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 more	cop
27	no	no	ADV	_	28 more	advmod
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 came	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 more	obl
31	than	than	ADP	_	34 dust	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 dust	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 dust	amod
34	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 more	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 box	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 box	det
37	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dust	nmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 which	case
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 kept	obl
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 kept	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 kept	aux
42	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 box	acl:relcl
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 toys	nmod:poss
44	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 kept	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the years						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	the years not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bring	gerund	the years not said here		the careless boy				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Destination
4	meet	past	boys = boy				again		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	Wendy	a married woman					tree rules
6	not is	past	Peter		woman			than a little dust in the box; more property	tree rules
7	keep	past · perfect	woman	woman's toys		the box			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent toy=Theme in which=Location

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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