Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 92
Michael believed longer than the other boys, though they jeered at him; so he was with Wendy when Peter came for her at the end of the first year.
Who acts: Michael, boys, Peter · What happens: believe, jeer, be, come · To what, where: end
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 (Michael, boys, Peter), 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 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 believed | nsubj |
| 2 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 believed | advmod |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 boys | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boys | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 boys | amod |
| 7 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 longer | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 jeered | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 jeered | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 jeered | nsubj |
| 11 | jeered | jeer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 believed | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 jeered | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 Wendy | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 Wendy | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 Wendy | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 Wendy | cop |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 Wendy | case |
| 19 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 jeered | obl |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 came | advmod |
| 21 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 jeered | advcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | obl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 end | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 end | det |
| 27 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 year | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 year | det |
| 30 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 31 year | amod |
| 31 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 end | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | Michael | long property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | jeer | past | boys = boy | at Michael | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Michael | with Wendy | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Peter | at the end of the first year | for Nana | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location |
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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