Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 39
She was wearing Wendy’s bracelet on her arm; she had asked for the loan of it.
Who acts: Mrs. · What happens: wear, ask, loan · To what, where: bracelet, arm, loan
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.), 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 wearing | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wearing | aux |
| 3 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bracelet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Wendy | case |
| 6 | bracelet | bracelet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wearing | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 arm | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 arm | nmod:poss |
| 9 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wearing | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 asked | aux |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 wearing | parataxis |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 loan | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 loan | det |
| 16 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 loan | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wearing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past · progressive | Mrs. | Wendy's bracelet | Mrs.'s arm | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bracelet=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past · perfect | Mrs. | for the loan of loan | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | loan | loan | nom loan «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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