Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 76
“Oh, all right,” Peter said, as if he had asked her from politeness merely; but Mrs. Darling saw his mouth twitch, and she made this handsome offer: to let Wendy go to him for a week every year to do his spring cleaning.
Who acts: Peter, Mrs. Darling, Darling, Wendy · What happens: say, ask, see, make, let, go · To what, where: Tink, politeness, mouth twitch, handsome offer, Wendy, Peter · 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 (Peter, Mrs. Darling, Darling, Wendy), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 right | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 right | advmod |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 8 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 asked | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 asked | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 asked | aux |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 politeness | case |
| 18 | politeness | politeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obl |
| 19 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 15 asked | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 saw | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 saw | cc |
| 22 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Darling | compound |
| 23 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 saw | nsubj |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 twitch | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 twitch | compound |
| 27 | twitch | twitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saw | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 made | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 made | cc |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 made | nsubj |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 saw | conj |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 offer | det |
| 33 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 offer | amod |
| 34 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obj |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 let | punct |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 let | mark |
| 37 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 made | advcl |
| 38 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 let | obj |
| 39 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 let | xcomp |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 go | obl |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 week | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 week | det |
| 44 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 go | obl |
| 45 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 46 year | det |
| 46 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 go | obl:unmarked |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 do | mark |
| 48 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 go | advcl |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 cleaning | nmod:poss |
| 50 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 cleaning | compound |
| 51 | cleaning | cleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 do | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Peter | Tink | politeness | merely property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||
| 3 | see | past | Mrs. Darling | Peter's mouth twitch | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer twitch=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Darling | this handsome offer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Product | ||||
| 5 | let | to-infinitive | Darling not said here | Wendy | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go | infinitive | Wendy not said here | Peter | week; year | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | do | to-infinitive | Wendy not said here | Peter's spring cleaning | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | twitch | Peter | nom twitch «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | clean | Peter | nom cleaning «act intransitive»: 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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