Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 24

“Is your mug empty, Slightly darling?”

Who acts: mug · What happens: be, darl

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 (mug), 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	_	5 empty	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 empty	cop
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mug	nmod:poss
4	mug	mug	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 empty	nsubj
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 darling	punct
7	Slightly	slightly	ADV	_	8 darling	advmod
8	darling	darl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 empty	parataxis
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 darling	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 empty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	your mug					empty property	tree rules
2	darl in a quote	gerund						slightly property	tree rules

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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