Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 57

“How awful!” she said, but she could not help smiling when she saw that he had been trying to stick it on with soap.

Who acts: Wendy, Peter · What happens: say, not help, smile, see, try, stick on · To what, where: shadow · 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 (Wendy, Peter), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 awful	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 awful	advmod
3	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 awful	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 awful	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 help	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 help	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 help	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 help	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 help	advmod
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
14	smiling	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 help	xcomp
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 saw	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 smiling	advcl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 trying	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 trying	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 trying	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 trying	aux
22	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 saw	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 stick	mark
24	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 trying	xcomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stick	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	24 stick	compound:prt
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 soap	case
28	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stick	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Wendy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not help	could	Wendy			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	smile not said to happen	gerund	Wendy not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	past	Wendy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	try	past · perfect · progressive	Peter			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	stick on not said to happen	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	shadow	with soap	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with soap=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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