Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 80
Not until Wendy again raised her arm did he relent sufficiently to say, “Well, not for ever, but for a whole week.”
Who acts: Wendy · What happens: raise, not relent, say · To what, where: arm · 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), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 relent | advmod |
| 2 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 5 raised | mark |
| 3 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 raised | nsubj |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 raised | advmod |
| 5 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 relent | advcl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 arm | nmod:poss |
| 7 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raised | obj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 relent | aux |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 relent | nsubj |
| 10 | relent | relent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 10 relent | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 say | mark |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 relent | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ever | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 ever | punct |
| 16 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 20 ever | discourse |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Well | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 ever | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 ever | case |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 say | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 week | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 week | cc |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 week | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 week | det |
| 25 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 week | amod |
| 26 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 relent | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 relent | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 relent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | Wendy | note's arm | again | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 2 | not relent | past · do-support | Wendy | week | sufficiently property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Wendy not said here | 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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