Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 2
They were waiting below to give Wendy time to explain about them; and when they had counted five hundred they went up.
Who acts: boys · What happens: wait, give, explain, count, go up · To what, where: five hundred
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 (boys), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waiting | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waiting | aux |
| 3 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | below | below | ADV | _ | 3 waiting | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 waiting | advcl |
| 7 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 time | compound |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 explain | mark |
| 10 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 time | acl |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 explain | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 counted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 counted | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 counted | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 counted | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 counted | aux |
| 18 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 went | advcl |
| 19 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 hundred | compound |
| 20 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 counted | obj |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waiting | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 went | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · progressive | boys = boy | below property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | boys = boy not said here | time | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | to-infinitive | boys = boy not said here | about boys = boy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | count | past · perfect | boys = boy | five hundred | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go up | past | boys = boy | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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