Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 114
“Peter,” she asked, trying to speak firmly, “what are your exact feelings to me?”
Who acts: Peter, exact feelings · What happens: ask, try, speak, be · To what, where: Peter · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Peter, exact feelings), 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 | _ | 2 Peter | punct |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Peter | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Peter | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 trying | punct |
| 8 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 asked | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 speak | mark |
| 10 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 trying | xcomp |
| 11 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 10 speak | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 what | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 what | punct |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | cop |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 17 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feelings | amod |
| 18 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 what | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 what | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 what | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Peter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | try | gerund | Peter not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | firmly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | your exact feelings | Peter | 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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