Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 38
She had dressed early because Wendy so loved to see her in her evening-gown, with the necklace George had given her.
Who acts: Mrs., Wendy, George · What happens: dress, love, see, give · To what, where: Mrs., evening gown
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 (Mrs., Wendy, George), 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 | 3 dressed | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | aux |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 dressed | advmod |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 loved | mark |
| 6 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 loved | nsubj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 loved | advmod |
| 8 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 loved | xcomp |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 see | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 gown | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 gown | nmod:poss |
| 14 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gown | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 evening | punct |
| 16 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 given | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 necklace | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 necklace | det |
| 20 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 given | obl |
| 21 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 given | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 given | aux |
| 23 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 dressed | advcl |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 given | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · perfect | Mrs. | early property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | love | past | Wendy | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wendy not said here | Mrs. | Mrs.'s evening gown | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | give | past · perfect | George | Mrs. | with the necklace | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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