Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 17
“Why don’t you let the nest drift as usual?”
Who acts: you · What happens: not do, let · To what, where: nest drift
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 do | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | advcl |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 do | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 let | nsubj |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 drift | det |
| 8 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drift | compound |
| 9 | drift | drift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 let | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 usual | case |
| 11 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 let | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | present | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | present | you | the nest drift | as usual | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drift=Theme |
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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