Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 74

Of course she could not answer yet, being still in a frightful faint; but from overhead came a wailing note.

Who acts: lady, wailing note · What happens: not answer, be, come, wail · To what, where: frightful faint

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, wailing note), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:937): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	6 answer	advmod
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 answer	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 answer	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 answer	advmod
6	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 answer	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 faint	punct
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 faint	cop
10	still	still	ADV	_	14 faint	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 faint	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 faint	det
13	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 faint	amod
14	faint	faint	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answer	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 overhead	case
18	overhead	overhead	ADV	_	19 came	obl
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 answer	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 note	det
21	wailing	wail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 note	amod
22	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	could	lady		yet	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund	lady not said here	a frightful faint	still	tree rules
3	come	past	a wailing note			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from overhead=Initial_Location
4	wail	gerund				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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