Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 56
Then Wendy saw the shadow on the floor, looking so draggled, and she was frightfully sorry for Peter.
Who acts: Wendy · What happens: see, look, draggl, be · To what, where: shadow, floor
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shadow | det |
| 5 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 floor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 floor | det |
| 8 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looking | punct |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | conj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 draggled | advmod |
| 12 | draggled | draggl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 looking | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sorry | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sorry | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sorry | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sorry | cop |
| 17 | frightfully | frightfully | ADV | _ | 18 sorry | advmod |
| 18 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 Peter | case |
| 20 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sorry | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Wendy | the shadow | the floor | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | look | gerund | Wendy not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | draggl | participle | Wendy not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Wendy | for Peter; frightfully, sorry 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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