Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 161
This seemed to Wendy rather forward for a first meeting, and she told him with spirit that he was not captain in her house.
Who acts: This, Wendy, John · What happens: seem, tell, not be · To what, where: Wendy, John, captain, house · 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 (This, Wendy, John), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Wendy | case |
| 4 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 seemed | obl |
| 5 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 6 forward | advmod |
| 6 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 2 seemed | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 meeting | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 meeting | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 meeting | amod |
| 10 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seemed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | nsubj |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | iobj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 spirit | case |
| 17 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 captain | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 captain | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 captain | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 captain | advmod |
| 22 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | ccomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 house | nmod:poss |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 captain | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | This | Wendy | for a first meeting; forward property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Wendy | John | with spirit | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | not is a | past | John | captain | Wendy's house | tree rules |
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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