Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 200

“Lovely, darling house,” Wendy said, and they were the very words they had hoped she would say.

Who acts: Wendy, lady · What happens: say, hope · To what, where: Nibs · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Wendy, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 house	punct
2	Lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 house	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Lovely	punct
4	darling	darling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 house	amod
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 house	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 house	punct
8	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hoped	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hoped	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hoped	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hoped	aux:pass
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 words	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 words	advmod
16	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hoped	nsubj:pass
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hoped	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hoped	aux
19	hoped	hope	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	ccomp
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 say	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 say	aux
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 hoped	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Wendy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hope	past · perfect · passive		Nibs = nib	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	would	lady		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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