Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 41
But I am afraid that Wendy did not really worry about her father and mother; she was absolutely confident that they would always keep the window open for her to fly back by, and this gave her complete ease of mind.
Who acts: I, Wendy, fireplace, this · What happens: be, not worry, keep, fly back, give · To what, where: window, complete ease
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Wendy, fireplace, this), 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 afraid | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | cop |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 worry | mark |
| 6 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 worry | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 worry | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 worry | advmod |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 worry | advmod |
| 10 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afraid | ccomp |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 father | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 worry | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 mother | cc |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 father | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 confident | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 confident | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 confident | cop |
| 19 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 20 confident | advmod |
| 20 | confident | confident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 afraid | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 keep | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 keep | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 keep | aux |
| 24 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 25 keep | advmod |
| 25 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 confident | ccomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 window | det |
| 27 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 keep | obj |
| 28 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 keep | xcomp |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 fly | mark |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 fly | nsubj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 fly | mark |
| 32 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 keep | advcl |
| 33 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 fly | advmod |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 fly | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 gave | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 gave | cc |
| 37 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 gave | nsubj |
| 38 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | conj |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 ease | nmod:poss |
| 40 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 ease | amod |
| 41 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 gave | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 mind | case |
| 43 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ease | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not worry | past · do-support | Wendy | about fireplace's father and mother | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about father=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | fireplace | absolutely, confident property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep | would | Wendy | the window | always, open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Theme | |||
| 5 | fly back | to-infinitive | fireplace | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | give | past | this | fireplace's complete ease of mind | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ease=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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