Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 4
They stood in a row in front of Mrs. Darling, with their hats off, and wishing they were not wearing their pirate clothes.
Who acts: boys · What happens: stand, wish, not wear · To what, where: row, pirate clothes
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 (boys), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 row | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 row | det |
| 5 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 front | case |
| 7 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Darling | case |
| 9 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Darling | compound |
| 10 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 front | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hats | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 hats | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hats | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hats | hat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 off | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | off | off | ADV | _ | 2 stood | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wishing | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wishing | cc |
| 18 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 stood | advcl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wearing | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wearing | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 wearing | advmod |
| 22 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 wishing | conj |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 clothes | compound |
| 25 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 22 wearing | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | boys = boy | a row | in front of Mrs. Darling; off property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location | |||
| 2 | wish | gerund | boys = boy not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | not wear | past · progressive | boys = boy | boys's pirate clothes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source |
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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