Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 42
Mrs. Darling came to the window, for at present she was keeping a sharp eye on Wendy.
Who acts: Mrs. · What happens: come, keep · To what, where: window, sharp eye, 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 (Mrs.), 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 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mrs. | flat |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 window | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 window | det |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 keeping | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 present | case |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 present | case |
| 10 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keeping | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 keeping | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 keeping | aux |
| 13 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 eye | det |
| 15 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eye | amod |
| 16 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keeping | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 Wendy | case |
| 18 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 keeping | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Mrs. | the window | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | keep | past · progressive | Mrs. | a sharp eye | Wendy | for present | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on wendy=Location |
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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