Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 181

Presently Wendy took the hat, because John said it struck against his knee as he flew; and this, as we shall see, led to mischief, for Tinker Bell hated to be under an obligation to Wendy.

Who acts: Wendy, John, hat, Peter, we, Tinker Bell · What happens: take, say, strike, fly, see, lead · To what, where: hat, knee, Wendy, obligation · 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, John, hat, 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hat	det
5	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 said	mark
8	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 struck	nsubj
11	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
12	against	against	ADP	_	14 knee	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 knee	nmod:poss
14	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 struck	obl
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 flew	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flew	nsubj
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 struck	advcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 this	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 this	cc
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 took	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 see	mark
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 see	nsubj
24	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 led	punct
27	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 see	acl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 mischief	case
29	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 led	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hated	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 hated	mark
32	Tinker	Tinker	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Bell	compound
33	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 hated	nsubj
34	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	39 obligation	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 obligation	cop
37	under	under	ADP	_	39 obligation	case
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 obligation	det
39	obligation	obligation	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hated	ccomp
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 Wendy	case
41	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 obligation	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	Wendy	the hat			this obl; presently property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	John					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	strike	past	hat			Peter's knee		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against knee=Location
4	fly	past	Peter					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	shall	we					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	lead	participle					to mischief	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to mischief=Patient
7	hate	past	Tinker Bell					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
8	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	Tinker Bell not said here		Wendy	a obligation		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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