Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 127
Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter.
Who acts: Years, Wendy · What happens: roll on, have · To what, where: daughter
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, 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 | Years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rolled | nsubj |
| 2 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 rolled | compound:prt |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 rolled | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 7 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rolled | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 daughter | det |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll on | participle | Years | again | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Wendy | a daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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