Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 195
She looked properly surprised, and this was just how they had hoped she would look.
Who acts: lady · What happens: look, hope · To what, where: this
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hoped | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hoped | cc |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 hoped | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hoped | aux:pass |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 hoped | advmod |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 hoped | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hoped | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hoped | aux |
| 13 | hoped | hope | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 look | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 look | aux |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hoped | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | lady | properly, surprised property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hope | past · perfect · passive | this | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look | would | lady | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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