Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 297

Peter gave Wendy a hand at first, but had to desist, Tink was so indignant.

Who acts: Peter, Tink · What happens: give, have, desist, be · To what, where: hand, Wendy

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, Tink), 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	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gave	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hand	det
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 first	case
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 gave	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 desist	mark
12	desist	desist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 indignant	punct
14	Tink	Tink	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 indignant	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 indignant	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 indignant	advmod
17	indignant	indignant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 desist	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	Peter	a hand	Wendy		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent wendy=Recipient hand=Theme at first=Asset
2	have	past	Peter not said here				tree rules
3	desist	to-infinitive	Peter not said here				vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Tink			indignant property	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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