Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 132
She had said it so often that Wendy needed no translation.
Who acts: ass, Wendy · What happens: say, need · To what, where: passion, translation · 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 (ass, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 often | advmod |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 needed | mark |
| 8 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 needed | nsubj |
| 9 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 translation | det |
| 11 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 needed | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | ass | passion | often property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | need | past | Wendy | no translation | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot translation=Theme |
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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