Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 69

“Perhaps I should have ironed it,” Wendy said thoughtfully, but Peter, boylike, was indifferent to appearances, and he was now jumping about in the wildest glee.

Who acts: Wendy, Peter · What happens: iron, say, be, jump · 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	_	11 said	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 ironed	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 ironed	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ironed	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 ironed	aux
6	ironed	iron	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ironed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ironed	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 ironed	punct
10	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 indifferent	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 indifferent	cc
15	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 indifferent	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 boylike	punct
17	boylike	boylike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Peter	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Peter	punct
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 indifferent	cop
20	indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 appearances	case
22	appearances	appearance	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 indifferent	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 jumping	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 jumping	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 jumping	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 jumping	aux
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 jumping	advmod
28	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
29	about	about	ADP	_	33 glee	case
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 glee	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 glee	det
32	wildest	wild	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 glee	amod
33	glee	glee	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 jumping	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	iron in a quote	should · perfect	Wendy	shadow		perhaps property	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Wendy			thoughtfully property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	past	Peter			to appearances; indifferent property	tree rules
4	jump	past · progressive	Peter		now	about the wildest glee	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about glee=Trajectory

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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