Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 101
Affrighted though she was, Wendy swelled with pride.
Who acts: Wendy, Starkey · What happens: affright, be, swell
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy, Starkey), 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 | Affrighted | affright | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 swelled | advcl |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 was | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Affrighted | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Affrighted | punct |
| 6 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 swelled | nsubj |
| 7 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 pride | case |
| 9 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swelled | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 swelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affright | participle | Wendy not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | past | Starkey | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | swell | past | Wendy | with pride | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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