Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 105
Wendy had lived such a home life that to know fairies struck her as quite delightful.
Who acts: Wendy, home life, fairies · What happens: live, know, strike · To what, where: home life, Wendy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy, home life, fairies), 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 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lived | aux |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 life | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 life | det |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 life | compound |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 know | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 know | mark |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 life | acl:relcl |
| 11 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 struck | nsubj |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | ccomp |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 struck | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 delightful | advmod |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 delightful | advmod |
| 16 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 struck | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past · perfect | Wendy | such home life | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | such home life | such home life not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | strike | past | fairies | Wendy | delightful property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument |
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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