Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 22

For a week or two after Wendy came it was doubtful whether they would be able to keep her, as she was another mouth to feed.

Who acts: sprout, books, Wendy · What happens: come, be, keep, feed · To what, where: Wendy

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sprout, books, 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 week	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 week	det
3	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 two	cc
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 week	conj
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 Wendy	case
7	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 week	nmod
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 doubtful	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 doubtful	cop
11	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 came	xcomp
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	16 able	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 able	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 able	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 able	cop
16	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 doubtful	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 keep	mark
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 able	xcomp
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 keep	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mouth	punct
21	as	as	ADP	_	25 mouth	case
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 mouth	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 mouth	cop
24	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 mouth	det
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keep	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 feed	mark
27	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 mouth	acl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past			week		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	sprout			doubtful property	tree rules
3	is	would	books = book			able property	tree rules
4	keep	to-infinitive	books = book not said here	Wendy			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	is	past	Wendy			as another mouth	tree rules
6	feed	to-infinitive	books = book not said here				vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=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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