Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 84

Now Wendy was every inch a woman, though there were not very many inches, and she peeped out of the bed-clothes.

Who acts: Wendy, many inches · What happens: be, peep out · To what, where: inch, bed clothes

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, many inches), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Wendy	advmod
2	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 inch	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 inch	cop
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 inch	det
5	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woman	det
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 inch	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 were	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 were	mark
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 were	expl
11	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 inch	parataxis
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 many	advmod
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 many	advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 inches	amod
15	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 were	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 peeped	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 peeped	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 peeped	nsubj
19	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 inch	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	25 clothes	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 clothes	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 clothes	det
23	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 clothes	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 bed	punct
25	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	19 peeped	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 inch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	Wendy	every inch		tree rules
2	be	past	many inches		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	peep out	past	Wendy	the bed clothes		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent clothes=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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