Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 129

She was called Jane, and always had an odd inquiring look, as if from the moment she arrived on the mainland she wanted to ask questions.

Who acts: most, mainland · What happens: call, have, arrive, want, ask · To what, where: most, odd inquiring look, mainland, questions · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (most, mainland), 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	3 called	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	aux:pass
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 had	cc
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 had	advmod
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	parataxis
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 look	det
10	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 look	amod
11	inquiring	inquiring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 look	compound
12	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 arrived	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 arrived	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 arrived	mark
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 moment	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 moment	det
18	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 arrived	obl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 arrived	nsubj
20	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 mainland	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mainland	det
23	mainland	mainland	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 arrived	obl
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wanted	nsubj
25	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 mainland	acl:relcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 ask	mark
27	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 wanted	xcomp
28	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 ask	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past · passive		most				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	have	past		a odd inquiring look			always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient
3	arrive a condition, not said to happen	past	most		the mainland	moment		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	want	past	most	the mainland not said here				tree rules
5	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	the mainland not said here	questions				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient

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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