Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 60
“There are always a lot of young ones,” explained Wendy, who was now quite an authority, “because you see when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.
Who acts: lot, Wendy, you, new baby, first time, new fairies · What happens: be, explain, see, laugh, bear · To what, where: authority, new fairy, new babies · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lot, Wendy, you, new baby), 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 | _ | 12 explained | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 explained | advcl |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 are | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lot | det |
| 6 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 are | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ones | case |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ones | amod |
| 9 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lot | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 12 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 explained | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 authority | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 authority | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 authority | cop |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 authority | advmod |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 authority | advmod |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 authority | det |
| 20 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Wendy | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 23 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 see | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 explained | conj |
| 26 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 30 laughs | mark |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 baby | det |
| 28 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 baby | amod |
| 29 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 laughs | nsubj |
| 30 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | ccomp |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 time | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 time | det |
| 33 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 34 time | amod |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 laughs | obl |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 fairy | det |
| 36 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 fairy | amod |
| 37 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 born | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 born | aux:pass |
| 39 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 time | acl:relcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 babies | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 babies | cc |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 are | mark |
| 43 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 44 are | expl |
| 44 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 babies | cop |
| 45 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 44 are | advmod |
| 46 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 babies | amod |
| 47 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 are | obl |
| 48 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 49 are | expl |
| 49 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 explained | conj |
| 50 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 51 new | advmod |
| 51 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 fairies | amod |
| 52 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 are | nsubj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | a lot of young ones | there | always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | past | Wendy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Wendy | a authority | now | tree rules | |||
| 4 | see in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | laugh in a quote | present | a new baby | time | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | bear in a quote | present · passive | the first time not said here | a new fairy | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | new babies | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | does in a quote | present | new fairies | 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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