Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 271

She had to admit that she was too tired.

Who acts: Wendy · What happens: have, admit, be · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 admit	mark
4	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 tired	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tired	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tired	cop
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 tired	advmod
9	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 admit	ccomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	have	past	Wendy		tree rules
2	admit speech: other	to-infinitive	Wendy not said here		vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Wendy	tired 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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