Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 153
“Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless.
Who acts: people · What happens: be
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 (people), 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 | _ | 7 gay | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 gay | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gay | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gay | cop |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 longer | advmod |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 gay | advmod |
| 7 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 innocent | cc |
| 9 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gay | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 heartless | cc |
| 11 | heartless | heartless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gay | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | people | gay, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | people not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be in a quote | people not said here | 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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