Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 45
She resented visits to the nursery from Mrs. Darling’s friends, but if they did come she first whipped off Michael’s pinafore and put him into the one with blue braiding, and smoothed out Wendy and made a dash at John’s hair.
Who acts: Nana, visits · What happens: resent, come, whip off, put, smooth out, make · To what, where: visits, pinafore, Michael, Wendy, dash, hair
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 (Nana, visits), 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 | 2 resented | nsubj |
| 2 | resented | resent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 resented | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 nursery | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nursery | det |
| 6 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 resented | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 friends | case |
| 8 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Darling | compound |
| 9 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 friends | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Darling | case |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 resented | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 come | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 come | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 come | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 resented | parataxis |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 whipped | nsubj |
| 19 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 whipped | advmod |
| 20 | whipped | whip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | obl |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 whipped | compound:prt |
| 22 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 pinafore | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Michael | case |
| 24 | pinafore | pinafore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 whipped | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 put | cc |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 come | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 put | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 one | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 one | det |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 braiding | case |
| 32 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 braiding | amod |
| 33 | braiding | braiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 one | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 smoothed | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 smoothed | cc |
| 36 | smoothed | smooth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 resented | parataxis |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 smoothed | compound:prt |
| 38 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 smoothed | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 made | cc |
| 40 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 smoothed | conj |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 dash | det |
| 42 | dash | dash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 made | obj |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 hair | case |
| 44 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 hair | nmod:poss |
| 45 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 44 John | case |
| 46 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 made | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 resented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resent | past | Nana | visits | to the nursery; from Mrs. Darling's friends | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer visit=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | visits = visit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | whip off | past | Nana | Michael's pinafore | first property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent pinafore=Material | |||
| 4 | put | infinitive | visits = visit not said here | Michael | into the one with blue braiding | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal | |||
| 5 | smooth out | participle | Wendy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wendy=Patient | |||||
| 6 | make | past | a dash | John's hair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dash=Product |
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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