Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 135

She died of old age, and at the end she had been rather difficult to get on with; being very firmly convinced that no one knew how to look after children except herself.

Who acts: Nana, one · What happens: die, be, get on, know, look · To what, where: end · 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 (Nana, one), 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 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 age	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 age	amod
5	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 died	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 difficult	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 difficult	cc
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 difficult	obl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 difficult	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 difficult	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 difficult	cop
14	rather	rather	ADV	_	15 difficult	advmod
15	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 died	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 get	mark
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 difficult	csubj
18	on	on	ADV	_	17 get	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	17 get	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 convinced	punct
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 convinced	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	24 convinced	advmod
23	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	24 convinced	advmod
24	convinced	convinced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 died	parataxis
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 knew	mark
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 knew	nsubj
28	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 convinced	advcl
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 look	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 look	mark
31	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 knew	ccomp
32	after	after	ADP	_	33 children	case
33	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 look	obl
34	except	except	ADP	_	35 herself	case
35	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 look	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	Nana	of old age		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of age=Causer
2	is	past · perfect	Nana	at the end	difficult property	tree rules
3	get on	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	gerund			convinced, firmly property	tree rules
5	know	past	no one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	look	to-infinitive		after children	except Nana	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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