Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 22
“You dunderheaded little jay!” she screamed, “Why don’t you do as I tell you?”
Who acts: You, Peter · What happens: dunderhead, scream, not do, tell · To what, where: little jay, you · 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 (You, Peter), 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 | _ | 3 dunderheaded | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 dunderheaded | nsubj |
| 3 | dunderheaded | dunderhead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 jay | amod |
| 5 | jay | jay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dunderheaded | obj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 dunderheaded | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dunderheaded | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 screamed | nsubj |
| 9 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dunderheaded | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tell | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 tell | punct |
| 12 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 do | advmod |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 do | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 tell | advcl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 tell | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 tell | nsubj |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 screamed | ccomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 tell | iobj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 screamed | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dunderheaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dunderhead in a quote | past | You | little jay | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | past | Peter | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not do in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | Peter | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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