Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 245
“Yes, I know,” Jane said, “I have been waiting for you.”
Who acts: Jane · What happens: know, say, wait · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 know | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 8 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 waiting | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 waiting | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 waiting | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 waiting | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 waiting | aux |
| 15 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 waiting | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | Jane | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jane | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wait in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | Jane | for you | vn exist-47.1 «NP 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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