Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 154
Wendy quite liked it, until Peter pointed out the drawbacks.
Who acts: Wendy, Peter · What happens: like, point out · To what, where: circle, drawbacks
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), 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 | 3 liked | nsubj |
| 2 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 3 liked | advmod |
| 3 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 liked | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pointed | punct |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 pointed | mark |
| 7 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 pointed | nsubj |
| 8 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 liked | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 pointed | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 drawbacks | det |
| 11 | drawbacks | drawback | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pointed | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 liked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past | Wendy | circle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | point out | past | Peter | the drawbacks | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drawback=Patient |
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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