Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 253
“It is just for spring cleaning time,” Jane said, “he wants me always to do his spring cleaning.”
Who acts: name, Jane, Wendy · What happens: be, say, want, do, clean · To what, where: Jane, spring cleaning · 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 (name, Jane, Wendy), 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 | _ | 8 time | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 time | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 time | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 6 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cleaning | compound |
| 7 | cleaning | cleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | compound |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 time | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 time | punct |
| 11 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wants | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 wants | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wants | nsubj |
| 16 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 wants | obj |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 do | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wants | xcomp |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 cleaning | nmod:poss |
| 22 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cleaning | compound |
| 23 | cleaning | cleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 wants | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | name | for cleaning time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jane | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | Wendy | Jane | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Jane not said here | Wendy's spring cleaning | always property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | clean in a quote | Wendy | nom cleaning «act 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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