Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 49
Wendy, however, felt at once that she was in the presence of a tragedy.
Who acts: Wendy · What happens: feel, be · To what, where: presence
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), 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 | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wendy | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 felt | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 felt | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 presence | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 presence | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 presence | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 presence | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 presence | det |
| 13 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | advcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tragedy | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tragedy | det |
| 16 | tragedy | tragedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 presence | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Wendy | however property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at once=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Wendy | the presence | of a tragedy | 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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