Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 52

O Wendy’s mother, if I was to wake up and feel there was a beard!”

Who acts: I, you, beard · What happens: be, feel

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 (I, you, beard), 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	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	4 mother	case
2	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mother	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Wendy	case
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feel	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 wake	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 wake	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wake	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	10 wake	mark
10	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 feel	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 wake	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 feel	cc
13	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 feel	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 beard	det
17	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 was	nsubj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 feel	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	I		wake property	tree rules
2	feel	imperative	you not said here		of Wendy's mother	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	be	past	a beard	there		vn exist-47.1 «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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