Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 84
But what to do with Wendy in her present delicate state of health?
What happens: do · To what, where: present delicate state
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 do | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 Wendy | case |
| 6 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 state | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 state | nmod:poss |
| 9 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 state | amod |
| 10 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 state | amod |
| 11 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 health | case |
| 13 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 state | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | to-infinitive | note's present delicate state of health | with Wendy | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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