Peter Pan, [peter and Wendy], sentence 18
DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?
Who acts: YOU · What happens: believe
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, [peter and Wendy]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (YOU), 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 | DO | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 BELIEVE | aux |
| 2 | YOU | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 BELIEVE | nsubj |
| 3 | BELIEVE | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | IN | in | ADP | _ | 5 FAIRIES | case |
| 5 | FAIRIES | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 BELIEVE | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 BELIEVE | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present · do-support | YOU | in FAIRIES | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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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