Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 43
Wendy had danced with joy, just as the real Mrs. Darling must have done.
Who acts: Wendy · What happens: dance, do · To what, where: real Mrs. Darling
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 (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 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 danced | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 danced | aux |
| 3 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 joy | case |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 danced | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 done | punct |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 done | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 done | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Darling | det |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Darling | amod |
| 11 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Darling | compound |
| 12 | Darling | darling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 done | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 done | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 done | aux |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 danced | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past · perfect | Wendy | with joy | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | must · perfect · passive | the real Mrs. Darling | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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