Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 121
Slightly married a lady of title, and so he became a lord.
Who acts: Michael · What happens: marry, become · To what, where: lady, lord
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 (Michael), 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 | Slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 2 married | advmod |
| 2 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 married | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 title | case |
| 6 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lady | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 became | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 became | cc |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 became | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 became | nsubj |
| 11 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 married | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lord | det |
| 13 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 became | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | a lady of title | slightly property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Patient | ||||
| 2 | become | past | Michael | a lord | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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