Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 41
“I don’t suppose,” Tootles said diffidently, “that I could be father.”
Who acts: Tootles · What happens: not suppose, say, be · To what, where: father · 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 (Tootles), 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 suppose | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 suppose | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 suppose | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 suppose | advmod |
| 5 | suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 suppose | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 suppose | punct |
| 8 | Tootles | tootle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | diffidently | diffidently | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 father | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 father | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 father | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 father | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 father | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 father | cop |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 father | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 father | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not suppose in a quote | present · do-support | Tootles = tootle | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Tootles | diffidently property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | could | Tootles = tootle | father | 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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