Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 25

“Not quite empty, mummy,” Slightly said, after looking into an imaginary mug.

What happens: say, look · 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: 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	_	6 mummy	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 empty	advmod
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 empty	advmod
4	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mummy	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 empty	punct
6	mummy	mummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mummy	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 mummy	punct
9	Slightly	slightly	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looking	punct
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 looking	mark
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 mug	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 mug	det
16	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mug	amod
17	mug	mug	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looking	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past						slightly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	look	gerund						into a imaginary mug	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into mug=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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