Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 182

“Ah yes, many girls hear it when they are sleeping, but I was the only one who heard it awake.”

Who acts: many girls, girls, Jane, only one · What happens: hear, sleep, be · To what, where: crow, only one

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 (many girls, girls, Jane, only 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 hear	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 hear	discourse
3	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Ah	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hear	punct
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girls	amod
6	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hear	nsubj
7	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hear	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 sleeping	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sleeping	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sleeping	aux
12	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 hear	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 one	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 one	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 one	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 one	det
18	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 one	amod
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	obl
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 heard	nsubj
21	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 one	acl:relcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	obj
23	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 heard	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hear	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	present	many girls	crow		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	sleep in a quote	present · progressive	girls = girl			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	past	Jane	the only one		tree rules
4	hear in a quote	past	the only one	crow	awake property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=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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