Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 77

Wendy would have preferred a more permanent arrangement; and it seemed to her that spring would be long in coming; but this promise sent Peter away quite gay again.

Who acts: it, spring, promise · What happens: prefer, seem, be, come, send away · To what, where: Wendy, Darling, Peter

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 (it, spring, promise), 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	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 preferred	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 preferred	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 preferred	aux
4	preferred	prefer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 arrangement	det
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 permanent	advmod
7	permanent	permanent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 arrangement	amod
8	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 preferred	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seemed	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seemed	nsubj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 preferred	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seemed	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 long	mark
16	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 long	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 long	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 long	cop
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 seemed	xcomp
20	in	in	SCONJ	_	21 coming	mark
21	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 long	advcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 sent	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 sent	cc
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 promise	det
25	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sent	nsubj
26	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 preferred	conj
27	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 sent	obj
28	away	away	ADV	_	26 sent	advmod
29	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 gay	advmod
30	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sent	xcomp
31	again	again	ADV	_	26 sent	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 preferred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	prefer	would · perfect · passive		Wendy				tree rules
2	seem	past	it		Darling			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is	would	spring				long property	tree rules
4	come	gerund	spring not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	send away	past	this promise	Peter		again	away, gay property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peter=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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