Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 204

What she said in her lovely tinkle Wendy could not of course understand, and I believe some of it was bad words, but it sounded kind, and she flew back and forward, plainly meaning “Follow me, and all will be well.”

Who acts: three, Wendy, I, some, word · What happens: say, not understand, believe, be, sound, fly · To what, where: lovely tinkle, bad words, Michael · 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 (three, Wendy, I, some), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 said	obj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 tinkle	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tinkle	nmod:poss
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tinkle	amod
7	tinkle	tinkle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
8	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tinkle	appos
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 understand	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 understand	advmod
11	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	13 understand	advmod
12	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 of	fixed
13	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Wendy	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 believe	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 believe	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 believe	nsubj
17	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 words	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 some	nmod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 words	cop
22	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 words	amod
23	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 believe	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sounded	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 sounded	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sounded	nsubj
27	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 believe	parataxis
28	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sounded	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 flew	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 flew	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 flew	nsubj
32	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sounded	conj
33	back	back	ADV	_	32 flew	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 forward	cc
35	forward	forward	ADV	_	33 back	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 meaning	punct
37	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	38 meaning	advmod
38	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 flew	advcl
39	“	"	PUNCT	_	40 Follow	punct
40	Follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 meaning	xcomp
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 Follow	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 all	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 all	cc
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 believe	ccomp
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 well	aux
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 well	cop
47	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 all	fixed
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	three		three's lovely tinkle		tree rules
2	not understand	could	Wendy not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	believe	present	I				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	some	bad words			tree rules
5	sound	past	word			kind property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	fly	past	three				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	mean	gerund	three not said here			plainly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	follow not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	three not said here	Michael			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
9	is in a quote	future				well property	tree rules
10	tinkle		three				nom tinkle «event intransitive»: poss=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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