Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 130
When she was old enough to ask them they were mostly about Peter Pan.
Who acts: most, questions · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: questions
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, questions), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 old | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 old | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 old | cop |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 old | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 ask | mark |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 old | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ask | iobj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 Peter | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Peter | cop |
| 11 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 13 Peter | advmod |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 Peter | case |
| 13 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obl |
| 14 | Pan | Pan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Peter | flat |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | most | enough, old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | most not said here | questions = question | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | questions = question | about Peter; mostly property | tree rules |
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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