Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 236
Peter continued to cry, and soon his sobs woke Jane.
Who acts: Peter, sobs · What happens: continue, cry, wake, sob · To what, where: Jane
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 (Peter, sobs), 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 continued | nsubj |
| 2 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 cry | mark |
| 4 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 continued | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 woke | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 woke | cc |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 woke | advmod |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sobs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sobs | sob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 woke | nsubj |
| 10 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 continued | conj |
| 11 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 woke | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Peter | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wake | past | Peter's sobs | Jane | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent jane=Patient | |||
| 4 | sob | Peter | nom sob «state intransitive»: 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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