Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 7
“Me Tiger Lily,” that lovely creature would reply.
Who acts: lovely creature · What happens: reply · To what, where: Tiger
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 (lovely creature), 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 | _ | 3 Tiger | punct |
| 2 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 Tiger | nsubj |
| 3 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tiger | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tiger | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tiger | punct |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 creature | det |
| 8 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 creature | amod |
| 9 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reply | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 reply | aux |
| 11 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Tiger | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tiger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | would | that lovely creature | Tiger not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tiger=Topic |
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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