Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 98

When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her he said, “Who is Tinker Bell?”

Who acts: Nana, doubtful hope, Tinker · What happens: express, be, see, say · To what, where: doubtful hope, Nana, Tinker Bell · 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 (Nana, doubtful hope, Tinker), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 expressed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 expressed	nsubj
3	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hope	det
5	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hope	amod
6	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 expressed	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 glad	nsubj
8	Tinker	Tinker	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 glad	nsubj
9	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Tinker	flat
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 glad	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 glad	cop
12	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hope	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 see	mark
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 glad	xcomp
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 see	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Bell	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 Bell	punct
20	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 Bell	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 Bell	cop
22	Tinker	Tinker	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Bell	compound
23	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	ccomp
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 Bell	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 Bell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	express	past	Nana	a doubtful hope		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Theme
2	is	would	a doubtful hope		glad property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	a doubtful hope not said here	Nana		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	say speech: ask	past	Tinker			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is a in a quote	present		Tinker Bell		tree rules

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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