Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 178

“No, it wasn’t,” Jane said gravely, “it was like this;” and she did it ever so much better than her mother.

Who acts: Jane, crow · What happens: not say, be, do · To what, where: crow · 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 (Jane, crow), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 n’t	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 n’t	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 n’t	cop
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 said	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 n’t	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 n’t	punct
9	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	gravely	gravely	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 this	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 this	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 this	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 this	cop
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 this	case
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 said	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 did	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 did	nsubj
22	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 did	obj
24	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 did	advmod
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 better	advmod
27	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 did	parataxis
28	than	than	ADP	_	30 mother	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mother	nmod:poss
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 better	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past	Jane			gravely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	past	crow			like this	tree rules
3	do	past	Jane	crow	ever		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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