Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 258
As you look at Wendy, you may see her hair becoming white, and her figure little again, for all this happened long ago.
Who acts: you, hair, this, Jane · What happens: look, see, become, happen, figure · To what, where: hair
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 (you, hair, this, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 look | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Wendy | case |
| 5 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hair | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | becoming | become | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 hair | acl |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 becoming | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 again | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 again | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 figure | nmod:poss |
| 17 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 again | nsubj |
| 18 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 again | advmod |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 see | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 happened | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 happened | mark |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 happened | det:predet |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 happened | nsubj |
| 24 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | parataxis |
| 25 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 ago | advmod |
| 26 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 24 happened | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | you | at Wendy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wendy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | may | you | Jane's hair | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hair=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | become | gerund | Jane's hair not said here | white property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | happen | past | this | ago property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | figure | Jane | nom figure «communication transitive»: 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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