Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 58
“How lovely,” cried Wendy so longingly that Mrs. Darling tightened her grip.
Who acts: Mrs. · What happens: cry, tighten, grip · To what, where: grip
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lovely | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 lovely | advmod |
| 3 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lovely | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lovely | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lovely | parataxis |
| 7 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | flat |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 longingly | advmod |
| 9 | longingly | longingly | ADV | _ | 6 cried | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 tightened | mark |
| 11 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 tightened | nsubj |
| 12 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Mrs. | flat |
| 13 | tightened | tighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 longingly | advcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 grip | nmod:poss |
| 15 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tightened | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lovely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | longingly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tighten | past | Mrs. | Mrs.'s grip | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grip=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grip | Mrs. | nom grip «act 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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