Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 32
As for Peter, he saw Wendy once again before he flew away.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: see, fly away · To what, where: Wendy
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), 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 | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 Peter | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Peter | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 again | advmod |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 saw | advmod |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 flew | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 flew | nsubj |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | advcl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 flew | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Peter | Wendy | again | as Peter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wendy=Stimulus as peter=Attribute | ||
| 2 | fly away | past | Peter | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP 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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