Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 26
“He hasn’t even begun to drink his milk,” Nibs interposed.
Who acts: rule, Nibs · What happens: not begin, not drink, interpose · To what, where: milk · 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 (rule, Nibs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:1411): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 begun | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 begun | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 begun | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 begun | advmod |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 begun | advmod |
| 6 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 interposed | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 drink | mark |
| 8 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 begun | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 milk | nmod:poss |
| 10 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drink | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 begun | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 begun | punct |
| 13 | Nibs | Nibs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 interposed | nsubj |
| 14 | interposed | interpose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 interposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not begin in a quote | present · perfect | rule | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not drink in a quote | to-infinitive | rule not said here | rule's milk | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient | ||||
| 3 | interpose speech: other | past | Nibs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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