Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 125
“Oh yes, Tinker Bell will tell you,” Wendy retorted scornfully.
Who acts: Tinker Bell, Wendy · What happens: tell, retort · To what, where: you · 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 (Tinker Bell, 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 | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 Bell | discourse |
| 3 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | Tinker | Tinker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Bell | compound |
| 6 | Bell | Bell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | aux |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 12 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 retorted | nsubj |
| 13 | retorted | retort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | ccomp |
| 14 | scornfully | scornfully | ADV | _ | 13 retorted | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | Tinker Bell | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | retort speech: other | past | Wendy | scornfully property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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