Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 140
“I don’t think I see anything to-night,” says Wendy, with a feeling that if Nana were here she would object to further conversation.
Who acts: I, Wendy, feeling · What happens: not think, see, say, be · To what, where: anything, object · 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 (I, Wendy, feeling), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 says | ccomp |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | ccomp |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 to | punct |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 says | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 feeling | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 feeling | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 feeling | det |
| 19 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 object | nsubj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 Nana | mark |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 Nana | mark |
| 22 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 feeling | nmod |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 object | cop |
| 24 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 object | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 object | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 object | aux |
| 27 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 says | ccomp |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 conversation | case |
| 29 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 conversation | amod |
| 30 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 object | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | I | anything | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Wendy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a | would · past | a feeling Nana | object | here | to further conversation | 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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