Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 14
But Wendy noticed with gentle concern that Peter did not seem to know that this was rather an odd way of getting your bread and butter, nor even that there are other ways.
Who acts: Wendy, Peter, this, odd way, other ways · What happens: notice, not seem, know, be, get · To what, where: odd way, bread · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. 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, this, odd way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:591): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 noticed | cc |
| 2 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 noticed | nsubj |
| 3 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 concern | case |
| 5 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 concern | amod |
| 6 | concern | concern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 noticed | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 seem | mark |
| 8 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 seem | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seem | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 seem | advmod |
| 11 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 noticed | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 know | mark |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seem | xcomp |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 way | mark |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 way | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 way | cop |
| 17 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 20 way | advmod |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 19 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 way | amod |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 know | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 getting | mark |
| 22 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 way | acl |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bread | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 getting | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 butter | cc |
| 26 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bread | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 are | punct |
| 28 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 32 are | cc |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 32 are | advmod |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 are | mark |
| 31 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 32 are | expl |
| 32 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 way | conj |
| 33 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 ways | amod |
| 34 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 are | nsubj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | Wendy | with gentle concern | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not seem | past · do-support | Peter | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | this | a odd way | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get | gerund | a odd way not said here | your bread and butter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | does | present | other ways | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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