Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 123
“Oh, very well,” Peter said, a little nettled.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: say, nettle · To what, where: little · 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), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 Peter | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Oh | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 8 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 little | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 nettled | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | nettled | nettle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | nettle | participle | a little | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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