Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 190
She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.
Who acts: Jane · What happens: huddle, not dare, not move
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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 huddled | nsubj |
| 2 | huddled | huddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 fire | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fire | det |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 huddled | obl |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 daring | advmod |
| 7 | daring | dare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 huddled | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 move | mark |
| 9 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 daring | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 helpless | punct |
| 11 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 huddled | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 guilty | cc |
| 13 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 helpless | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 woman | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 helpless | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 huddled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | huddle | past | Jane | by the fire | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fire=Location | ||||
| 2 | not dare | gerund | Jane not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not move | to-infinitive | Jane not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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