Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 28
But she was prejudiced in Wendy’s favour, and he was really the grander character of the two.
Who acts: pound, Wendy · What happens: prejudice, be, favour · To what, where: George, favour, grander character
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 (pound, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 prejudiced | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 prejudiced | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prejudiced | aux:pass |
| 4 | prejudiced | prejudice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 favour | case |
| 6 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 favour | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Wendy | case |
| 8 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prejudiced | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 character | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 character | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 character | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 character | cop |
| 13 | really | really | ADV | _ | 16 character | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 character | det |
| 15 | grander | grand | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 character | amod |
| 16 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prejudiced | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 two | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 two | det |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 character | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prejudiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prejudice | past · passive | George | Wendy's favour | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | pound | the grander character | of the two | tree rules | |||
| 3 | favour | Wendy | nom favour «feeling 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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