Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 43
A strange smile was playing about his face, and Wendy saw it and shuddered.
Who acts: strange smile, Wendy · What happens: play, see, shudder · To what, where: face
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 (strange smile, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 smile | det |
| 2 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 smile | amod |
| 3 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 playing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 playing | aux |
| 5 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 face | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 face | nmod:poss |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 playing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 11 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 playing | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shuddered | cc |
| 15 | shuddered | shudder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 saw | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 playing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · progressive | a strange smile | about smile's face | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Wendy | face | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | shudder | past | Wendy not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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