Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 291

She clung to him; she refused to go without him; but with a “Good-bye, Wendy,” he pushed her from the rock; and in a few minutes she was borne out of his sight.

Who acts: Wendy, Good Wendy, Michael · What happens: cling, refuse, not go, push, bear out, sight · To what, where: Michael, feeling, rock, Wendy, sight

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, Good Wendy, Michael), 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 clung	nsubj
2	clung	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 clung	obl
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 refused	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 refused	nsubj
7	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 clung	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 refused	xcomp
10	without	without	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 go	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 pushed	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 pushed	cc
14	with	with	SCONJ	_	25 pushed	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pushed	det
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 pushed	punct
17	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Wendy	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 bye	punct
19	bye	bye	INTJ	_	17 Good	flat
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Wendy	punct
21	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 pushed	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Wendy	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 Wendy	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pushed	nsubj
25	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 clung	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pushed	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 rock	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rock	det
29	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pushed	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 borne	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 borne	cc
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 minutes	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 minutes	det
34	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 minutes	amod
35	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 borne	obl
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 borne	nsubj:pass
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 borne	aux:pass
38	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 pushed	conj
39	out	out	ADP	_	42 sight	case
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 sight	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 sight	nmod:poss
42	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 borne	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 clung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cling	past	Wendy		Michael				vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to he=Co-Theme
2	refuse	past	Wendy						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not go	to-infinitive	Wendy not said here					without Michael	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	push	past	Good Wendy	feeling		the rock			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme from rock=Trajectory
5	bear out	past · passive		Wendy		Michael's sight	minute		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary sight=Patient
6	sight		Michael						nom sight «cognition 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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