Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 250
“Good-bye,” said Peter to Wendy; and he rose in the air, and the shameless Jane rose with him; it was already her easiest way of moving about.
Who acts: Peter, shameless Jane, air, easiest way · What happens: say, rise, be, move about · To what, where: Wendy, air, easiest way · 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 (Peter, shameless Jane, air, easiest way), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bye | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 bye | punct |
| 4 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bye | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bye | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Wendy | case |
| 10 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 rose | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rose | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rose | nsubj |
| 14 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 air | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 air | det |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rose | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rose | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rose | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Jane | det |
| 21 | shameless | shameless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Jane | amod |
| 22 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 rose | nsubj |
| 23 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 rose | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 rose | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 way | punct |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 way | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 way | cop |
| 29 | already | already | ADV | _ | 32 way | advmod |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 way | nmod:poss |
| 31 | easiest | easy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 way | amod |
| 32 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rose | parataxis |
| 33 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 34 moving | mark |
| 34 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 way | acl |
| 35 | about | about | ADV | _ | 34 moving | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | Wendy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wendy=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | Peter | the air | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | the shameless Jane | with Peter | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | air | Jane's easiest way | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | move about | gerund | Jane's easiest way not said here | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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