Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 60
Wonderful to relate, Wendy had raised her arm.
What happens: relate, raise · To what, where: Wendy
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: 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 | Wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 relate | mark |
| 3 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wonderful | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 raised | punct |
| 5 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 raised | aux |
| 7 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Wonderful | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 arm | nmod:poss |
| 9 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 raised | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | to-infinitive | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | raise | past · perfect · passive | Wendy | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme arm=Destination |
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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