Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 108
“It is only make-believe, isn’t it, that I am their father?”
Who acts: change, Wendy · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: make believe, believe, father
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (change, Wendy), 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 | _ | 7 believe | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 believe | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 believe | advmod |
| 5 | make | make | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 believe | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 believe | punct |
| 7 | believe | believe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 believe | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 it | cop |
| 10 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 it | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 believe | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 father | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 father | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 father | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 father | cop |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 believe | appos |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 father | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 father | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | change | make believe | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | believe | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Wendy | nighties's father | tree rules |
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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