Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 18

“I—want—you—” the bird said, and repeated it all over.

Who acts: bird · What happens: want, say, repeat · To what, where: you, drift · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (bird), 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	_	4 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
3	—	—	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	—	-	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 want	obj
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 repeated	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 repeated	cc
14	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 repeated	obj
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 over	advmod
17	over	over	ADV	_	14 repeated	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want in a quote		the bird = bird	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the bird			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	repeat	past		drift	over property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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