Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 92

“Am I not a wonder, oh, I am a wonder!” he whispered to her, and though she thought so also, she was really glad for the sake of his reputation that no one heard him except herself.

Who acts: wonder, Wendy, one, Hook · What happens: not be, be, whisper, think, hear, repute · To what, where: wonder, Wendy, Hook · 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 (wonder, Wendy, one, Hook), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 wonder	punct
2	Am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wonder	cop
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wonder	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wonder	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wonder	det
6	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whispered	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wonder	punct
8	oh	oh	INTJ	_	13 wonder	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 oh	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 wonder	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wonder	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wonder	det
13	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wonder	appos
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 wonder	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 wonder	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 whispered	nsubj
17	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 whispered	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 thought	cc
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 thought	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 thought	nsubj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 whispered	conj
25	so	so	ADV	_	31 glad	advmod
26	also	also	ADV	_	31 glad	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 glad	punct
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 glad	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 glad	cop
30	really	really	ADV	_	31 glad	advmod
31	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 thought	ccomp
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 sake	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sake	det
34	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 glad	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 reputation	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 reputation	nmod:poss
37	reputation	reputation	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sake	nmod
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 heard	mark
39	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 one	det
40	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 heard	nsubj
41	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 glad	advcl
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 heard	obj
43	except	except	ADP	_	44 herself	case
44	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 heard	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	a wonder = wonder	a wonder			tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	a wonder = wonder	a wonder			tree rules
3	whisper speech: express	past	a wonder		Wendy		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
4	think speech: other	past	Wendy				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Wendy			for the sake of Hook's reputation; glad property	tree rules
6	hear	past	no one	Hook		except Wendy	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
7	repute		Hook				nom reputation «state 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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