Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 63
“Wendy,” remonstrated Michael, “I’m too big for a cradle.”
Who acts: Wendy, telling · What happens: remonstrate, be · To what, where: Michael
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 (Wendy, telling), 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 remonstrated | punct |
| 2 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 remonstrated | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wendy | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wendy | punct |
| 5 | remonstrated | remonstrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 remonstrated | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’m | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’m | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ’m | nsubj |
| 10 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 remonstrated | conj |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 big | advmod |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ’m | xcomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 cradle | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cradle | det |
| 15 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 big | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remonstrated | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 remonstrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remonstrate | past | Wendy | Michael | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent michael=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | telling | big property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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