Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 34
So, though fear was upon her, and she longed to hear male voices, she would not waken them.
Who acts: fear, Wendy · What happens: be, long, hear, not waken · To what, where: male voices, voices
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 (fear, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 her | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 her | punct |
| 3 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 her | mark |
| 4 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 her | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 her | cop |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 longed | nsubj:outer |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 longed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 longed | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 longed | nsubj |
| 11 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hear | mark |
| 13 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 longed | xcomp |
| 14 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voices | amod |
| 15 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hear | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 waken | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 waken | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 waken | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 waken | advmod |
| 20 | waken | waken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 longed | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 waken | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 longed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | fear | upon Wendy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | long | past | Wendy | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hear not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wendy not said here | male voices | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not waken | would | Wendy | voices = voice | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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