Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 198
It would have been well for Wendy if at that moment she had dropped the hat.
Who acts: wind, Wendy · What happens: be, drop · To what, where: hat
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 (wind, Wendy), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Wendy | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 Wendy | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Wendy | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 Wendy | cop |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 been | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Wendy | case |
| 7 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 dropped | mark |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dropped | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dropped | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dropped | aux |
| 14 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 Wendy | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hat | det |
| 16 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dropped | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Wendy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would · perfect | wind | for Wendy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drop a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Wendy | the hat | moment | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=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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