Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 186
To Wendy’s pain the answer that rang out this time was “Yes.”
Who acts: answer, Wendy · What happens: ring out, pain
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 (answer, 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 pain | case |
| 2 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pain | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Wendy | case |
| 4 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 answer | det |
| 6 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Yes | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 rang | nsubj |
| 8 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 answer | acl:relcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 rang | compound:prt |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rang | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Yes | cop |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Yes | punct |
| 14 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 pain | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pain | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring out | past | the answer | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pain | Wendy | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=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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