Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 249
“Yes, I know,” Wendy admitted rather forlornly; “no one knows it so well as I.”
Who acts: Wendy, one · What happens: know, admit · To what, where: step · 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 (Wendy, one), 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 admitted | 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 admitted | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 8 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 admitted | nsubj |
| 9 | admitted | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 11 forlornly | advmod |
| 11 | forlornly | forlornly | ADV | _ | 9 admitted | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 knows | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 knows | punct |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knows | nsubj |
| 16 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 admitted | ccomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knows | obj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 well | advmod |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 knows | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 I. | case |
| 21 | I. | i. | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knows | obl |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | Wendy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | past | Wendy | forlornly property | vn confess-37.10 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | no one | step | as I.; well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus as i.=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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