Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 162

“The foolish fellow,” says Wendy, “tried to stick it on with soap, and when he could not he cried, and that woke me, and I sewed it on for him.”

Who acts: Wendy, that · What happens: say, try, stick on, not cry, wake, sew on · To what, where: shadow, Wendy · 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 (Wendy, that), 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 says	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fellow	det
3	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fellow	amod
4	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fellow	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 fellow	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tried	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 tried	punct
11	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 stick	mark
13	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tried	xcomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stick	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	13 stick	compound:prt
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 soap	case
17	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stick	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cried	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cried	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 cried	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cried	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 cried	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 cried	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cried	nsubj
25	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tried	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 woke	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 woke	cc
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 woke	nsubj
29	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cried	conj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 woke	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sewed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sewed	cc
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 sewed	nsubj
34	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tried	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sewed	obj
36	on	on	ADP	_	34 sewed	compound:prt
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sewed	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Wendy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	try in a quote	past				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	stick on not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		shadow	with soap	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with soap=Theme
4	not cry speech: express in a quote	could	Wendy			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	wake in a quote	past	that	Wendy		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient
6	sew on in a quote	past	Wendy	shadow	for Wendy	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for he=Beneficiary

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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