Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 9
She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth.
Who acts: Wendy · What happens: be · To what, where: lovely lady
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lady | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lady | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 4 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | amod |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mind | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 mind | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mind | det |
| 9 | romantic | romantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mind | amod |
| 10 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lady | appos |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 mouth | cc |
| 12 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 mouth | det:predet |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mouth | det |
| 14 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mouth | amod |
| 15 | mocking | mocking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mouth | compound |
| 16 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mind | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lady | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Wendy | a lovely lady | 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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