Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 48
“No, indeed,” replied the twins; “it’s awfully difficult to be a twin.”
Who acts: twins · What happens: reply, be · To what, where: 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 (twins), 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 replied | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 twins | det |
| 9 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 difficult | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 difficult | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 difficult | expl |
| 13 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 difficult | cop |
| 14 | awfully | awfully | ADV | _ | 15 difficult | advmod |
| 15 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 replied | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 twin | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 twin | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 twin | det |
| 19 | twin | twin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 difficult | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 difficult | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the twins | indeed property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the twins not said here | awfully, difficult property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | the twins not said here | 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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