Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 247

“She is my mother,” Peter explained; and Jane descended and stood by his side, with the look in her face that he liked to see on ladies when they gazed at him.

Who acts: Jane, Peter, posts · What happens: be, explain, descend, stand, like, see · To what, where: mother · 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, Peter, posts), 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	_	5 mother	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mother	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mother	cop
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 explained	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
8	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 explained	nsubj
9	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 descended	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 descended	cc
12	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 descended	nsubj
13	descended	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 explained	ccomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stood	cc
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 descended	conj
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 side	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 side	nmod:poss
18	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 look	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 look	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 look	det
22	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 face	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 face	nmod:poss
25	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 look	nmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 liked	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 liked	nsubj
28	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stood	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 see	mark
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 liked	xcomp
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 ladies	case
32	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 see	obl
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 gazed	advmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 gazed	nsubj
35	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 see	advcl
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 gazed	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 explained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Jane	my mother		tree rules
2	explain speech: assert	past	Peter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	descend	past	Jane			vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stand	past	Jane not said here		by Peter's side; with the look in Jane's face	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location
5	like	past	Peter			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	Peter not said here		on ladies	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	gaze	past	posts = post		at Peter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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