Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 16
Her private opinion was that the redskins should not call her a squaw.
Who acts: private opinion, Peter · What happens: not be, opine · To what, where: squaw
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 (private opinion, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 2 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 opinion | amod |
| 3 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 call | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 call | cop |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 call | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 redskins | det |
| 7 | redskins | redskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 call | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 call | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 call | advmod |
| 10 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 call | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 squaw | det |
| 13 | squaw | squaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 call | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | should · past | Peter's private opinion | a squaw | call property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | opine | Peter | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=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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