Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 183

Peter could not understand why, but Wendy understood, and she was just slightly disappointed when he admitted that he came to the nursery window not to see her but to listen to stories.

Who acts: Peter, Wendy · What happens: not understand, understand, be, admit, come, not see · To what, where: nursery window, 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 (Peter, 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	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 understand	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 understand	advmod
4	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 understand	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 understood	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 understood	cc
8	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 understood	nsubj
9	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 disappointed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 disappointed	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 disappointed	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 disappointed	cop
14	just	just	ADV	_	16 disappointed	advmod
15	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	16 disappointed	advmod
16	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 understand	conj
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 admitted	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 admitted	nsubj
19	admitted	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 disappointed	advcl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 came	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 see	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 window	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 window	det
25	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 window	compound
26	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 see	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 admitted	ccomp
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 see	obj
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 listen	cc
32	to	to	PART	_	33 listen	mark
33	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 see	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 stories	case
35	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 listen	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not understand	could	Peter				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	understand	past	Wendy				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	Wendy			disappointed, slightly property	tree rules
4	admit speech: other	past	Peter				vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come	past	Peter		the nursery window		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial_Location
6	not see	to-infinitive		Wendy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
7	listen	to-infinitive				to stories	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=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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