Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 31
“May I sit in Peter’s chair, as he is not here?”
Who acts: rule, John · What happens: sit, not be · To what, where: chair
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, John), 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 | _ | 4 sit | punct |
| 2 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sit | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sit | nsubj |
| 4 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 chair | case |
| 6 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 chair | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Peter | case |
| 8 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sit | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 here | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 here | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 here | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 here | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 here | advmod |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sit | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit in a quote | may | rule | Peter's chair | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | John | here 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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