Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 94
She had looked forward to thrilling talks with him about old times, but new adventures had crowded the old ones from his mind.
Who acts: Nana, new adventures, Peter · What happens: look, thrill, crowd, mind · To what, where: talks, old ones, mind
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 (Nana, new adventures, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | aux |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 6 thrilling | mark |
| 6 | thrilling | thrill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 looked | advcl |
| 7 | talks | talk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thrilling | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 talks | nmod |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 times | case |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 times | amod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 talks | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 crowded | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 crowded | cc |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 adventures | amod |
| 16 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 crowded | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 crowded | aux |
| 18 | crowded | crowd | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 looked | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ones | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ones | amod |
| 21 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 crowded | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 mind | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mind | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ones | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · perfect | Nana | forward property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | thrill | gerund | Nana not said here | talks | about old times | with Peter | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus talk=Experiencer | ||
| 3 | crowd | past · perfect | new adventures | the old ones | Peter's mind | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme one=Destination | |||
| 4 | mind | Peter | nom mind «cognition 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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