Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 19
He was as glad to have them as she was, he said, but he thought they should have asked his consent as well as hers, instead of treating him as a cypher in his own house.
Who acts: truth, Mrs., tears · What happens: be, have, think, ask, treat, consent · To what, where: tears, consent, truth · 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 (truth, Mrs., tears), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 glad | case |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 glad | xcomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 said | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 thought | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | parataxis |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 asked | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 asked | aux |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 asked | aux |
| 21 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 consent | nmod:poss |
| 23 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 asked | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 well | advmod |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 hers | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 hers | case |
| 27 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 asked | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 treating | punct |
| 29 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 31 treating | mark |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 instead | fixed |
| 31 | treating | treat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 asked | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 treating | obj |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 cypher | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 cypher | det |
| 35 | cypher | cypher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 treating | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 house | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 house | nmod:poss |
| 38 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 house | amod |
| 39 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cypher | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | truth | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | truth not said here | tears = tear | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Mrs. | say property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | truth | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | should · perfect | tears = tear | truth's consent | as Mrs. | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent consent=Recipient | |||
| 6 | treat | gerund | tears = tear not said here | truth | as a cypher in truth's own house | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Theme as cypher=Attribute | |||
| 7 | consent | truth | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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