Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 52
Such a midget she looked in her long skirt and maid’s cap, though she had sworn, when engaged, that she would never see ten again.
Who acts: midget · What happens: look, swear, engage, not see · To what, where: ten
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 (midget), 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 midget | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 midget | det |
| 3 | midget | midget | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 skirt | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 skirt | nmod:poss |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 skirt | amod |
| 9 | skirt | skirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cap | cc |
| 11 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cap | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 maid | case |
| 13 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 skirt | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sworn | punct |
| 15 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 sworn | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sworn | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sworn | aux |
| 18 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 looked | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 engaged | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 engaged | advmod |
| 21 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 sworn | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 see | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 see | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 see | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 see | aux |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 see | advmod |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 engaged | parataxis |
| 28 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 see | obj |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 27 see | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | such midget | in midget's long skirt and maid's cap | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in skirt=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swear | past · perfect | midget | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | engage | participle | midget not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | not see | would | midget | ten | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ten=Stimulus |
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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