Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 98
Wendy was quite surprised, but interested; and she indicated in the charming drawing-room manner, by a touch on her night-gown, that he could sit nearer her.
Who acts: Wendy, Peter · What happens: be, indicate, sit · To what, where: room manner
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 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 surprised | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprised | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 surprised | advmod |
| 4 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 interested | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 interested | cc |
| 7 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 surprised | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 indicated | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 indicated | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 indicated | nsubj |
| 11 | indicated | indicate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprised | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 manner | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 manner | det |
| 14 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 room | compound |
| 15 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 room | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 drawing | punct |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 manner | compound |
| 18 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 indicated | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 touch | punct |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 touch | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 touch | det |
| 22 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 indicated | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 gown | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 gown | nmod:poss |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gown | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 night | punct |
| 27 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 touch | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sit | punct |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 sit | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 sit | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 sit | aux |
| 32 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 indicated | conj |
| 33 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 sit | xcomp |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 nearer | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Wendy | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Wendy not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | indicate | past | Wendy | the room manner | by a touch on Wendy's night gown | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 4 | sit | could | Peter | near property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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