Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 131
She loved to hear of Peter, and Wendy told her all she could remember in the very nursery from which the famous flight had taken place.
Who acts: most, Wendy · What happens: love, hear, tell, remember, take · To what, where: most, nursery, famous flight · 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, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 hear | mark |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 loved | xcomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Peter | case |
| 6 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hear | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 9 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 told | nsubj |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 loved | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 her | det |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 remember | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 remember | aux |
| 15 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 told | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 nursery | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 nursery | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 nursery | advmod |
| 19 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 remember | obl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 taken | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 flight | det |
| 23 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 flight | amod |
| 24 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 taken | aux |
| 26 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 nursery | acl:relcl |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 taken | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | most | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hear not said to happen | to-infinitive | most not said here | of Peter | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of peter=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Wendy | most | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | remember | could | most | the nursery | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | take | past · perfect · passive | the famous flight | the nursery | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination |
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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