Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 21
His sobs woke Wendy, and she sat up in bed.
Who acts: sobs, Wendy, shudder · What happens: wake, sit up, sob · To what, where: Wendy, bed
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 (sobs, Wendy, shudder), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sobs | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sobs | sob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 woke | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sat | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 woke | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 sat | compound:prt |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bed | case |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | shudder's sobs | Wendy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wendy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sit up | past | Wendy | bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | ||||
| 3 | sob | shudder | nom sob «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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