Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 18
Wendy insisted on their doing this, and it had to be a real rest even though the meal was make-believe.
Who acts: Wendy, children, mark, meal · What happens: insist, do, have, be · To what, where: this, real rest
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, children, mark, meal), 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 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 insisted | nsubj |
| 2 | insisted | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 doing | mark |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 doing | nsubj |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 insisted | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 doing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 insisted | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 rest | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 rest | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rest | det |
| 14 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rest | amod |
| 15 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | advcl |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 meal | advmod |
| 17 | though | though | ADP | _ | 19 meal | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 meal | det |
| 19 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 believe | cop |
| 21 | make | make | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 believe | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 believe | punct |
| 23 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 meal | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 insisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | insist speech: other | past | Wendy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | gerund | children = child | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | have | past | mark | though the meal | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | mark not said here | a real rest | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the meal not said here | believe property | tree rules |
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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