Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 131
“You silly ass!” cried Tinker Bell in a passion.
Who acts: You, silly ass · What happens: ass, cry · To what, where: Tinker Bell, passion · 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 (You, silly ass), 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 | _ | 4 ass | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ass | nsubj |
| 3 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ass | amod |
| 4 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 ass | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ass | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Tinker | Tinker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Bell | compound |
| 9 | Bell | Bell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 passion | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 passion | det |
| 12 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ass in a quote | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | silly ass | Tinker Bell | a passion | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Topic |
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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