Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 47
“As I can’t be baby,” Tootles said, getting heavier and heavier and heavier, “do you think I could be a twin?”
Who acts: baby Tootles, you · What happens: not be, say, get, think, be · To what, where: baby, twin · 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 (baby Tootles, you), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 baby | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 baby | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 baby | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 baby | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 baby | cop |
| 7 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Tootles | compound |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 baby | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 baby | punct |
| 10 | Tootles | tootle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 getting | punct |
| 13 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 said | ccomp |
| 14 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 getting | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 heavier | cc |
| 16 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 heavier | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 heavier | cc |
| 18 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 heavier | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 think | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 think | punct |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 think | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 think | nsubj |
| 23 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 twin | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 twin | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 twin | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 twin | det |
| 28 | twin | twin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 think | ccomp |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 think | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | can | baby Tootles = tootle | baby | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | baby Tootles | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get | gerund | heavy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | could | baby Tootles = tootle | a twin | 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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