Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 83

“Wendy,” he continued, in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, “Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.”

Who acts: Wendy, woman, voice, one girl · What happens: continue, have, be, resist · To what, where: voice, more use

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, woman, voice, one girl), 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	_	2 Wendy	punct
2	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 continued	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wendy	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Wendy	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 continued	nsubj
6	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 voice	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 voice	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 voice	det
10	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 continued	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 has	obj
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 woman	det
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 has	nsubj
14	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 voice	acl:relcl
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 able	advmod
16	yet	yet	ADV	_	18 able	advmod
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 able	cop
18	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 has	xcomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 resist	mark
20	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 able	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Wendy	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 Wendy	punct
23	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 continued	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 use	punct
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 girl	nummod
26	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 use	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 use	cop
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 use	amod
29	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Wendy	appos
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 boys	case
31	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 boys	nummod
32	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 use	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 Wendy	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past	Wendy		a voice			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	no woman	a voice				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
3	is	participle	a voice not said here			ever; yet	able property	tree rules
4	resist	to-infinitive	a voice not said here					tree rules
5	is a in a quote	present	one girl	more use			than twenty boys	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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