Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 128
“She says she glories in being abandoned,” Peter interpreted.
Who acts: Tink, Peter · What happens: say, glory, abandon, interpret · 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 (Tink, 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 says | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 glories | nsubj |
| 5 | glories | glory | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 abandoned | mark |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 abandoned | aux:pass |
| 8 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 glories | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 abandoned | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 11 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 interpreted | nsubj |
| 12 | interpreted | interpret | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Tink | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | glory in a quote | present | Tink | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | abandon in a quote | gerund · passive | Tink not said here | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location» | |||||
| 4 | interpret | past | Peter | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: 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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