Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 58
All looked at him in wonder, save Nibs, who fortunately looked at Wendy.
Who acts: Nibs · What happens: look, save · To what, where: wonder, Nibs
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 (Nibs), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 looked | advmod |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 wonder | case |
| 6 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 save | punct |
| 8 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 looked | advcl |
| 9 | Nibs | nib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 save | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 13 looked | advmod |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Nibs | acl:relcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Wendy | case |
| 15 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 looked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | wonder | at Peter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | save | infinitive | Nibs | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nib=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | past | Nibs | at Wendy; fortunately property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wendy=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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