Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 196

So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder.

Who acts: older ones, winking, little ones · What happens: become, be, wonder · To what, where: eyed speak, star language

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (older ones, winking, little ones), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 become	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ones	det
3	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 ones	amod
4	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 become	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 become	aux
6	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	glassy	glassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eyed	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 glassy	punct
9	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 speak	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 seldom	cc
11	seldom	seldom	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eyed	conj
12	speak	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 become	xcomp
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 language	punct
14	winking	winking	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 language	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 language	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 language	det
17	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 language	compound
18	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 speak	appos
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 language	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wonder	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 wonder	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ones	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ones	amod
24	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 wonder	nsubj
25	still	still	ADV	_	26 wonder	advmod
26	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 become	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	become	present · perfect	the older ones	eyed speak		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	is a	present	winking	the star language		tree rules
3	wonder speech: ask	present	the little ones		still	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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