Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 63
Wendy was crying, for it was the first tragedy she had seen.
Who acts: Wendy, head · What happens: cry, be, see · To what, where: first tragedy
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, head), 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 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 crying | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crying | aux |
| 3 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 crying | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 tragedy | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tragedy | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tragedy | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tragedy | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 tragedy | amod |
| 10 | tragedy | tragedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crying | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 tragedy | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past · progressive | Wendy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | head | for the first tragedy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | Wendy | the first tragedy not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tragedy=Stimulus |
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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