Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 77
“Peter, you just spoil them, you know,” Wendy simpered.
Who acts: Peter, you, Wendy · What happens: spoil, know, simper · To what, where: nuts
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 (Peter, you, Wendy), 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 | _ | 2 Peter | punct |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 spoil | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Peter | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 spoil | nsubj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 spoil | advmod |
| 6 | spoil | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spoil | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 know | nsubj |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spoil | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 spoil | punct |
| 13 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 simpered | nsubj |
| 14 | simpered | simper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spoil | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spoil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spoil in a quote | present | Peter | nuts = nut | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | simper | past | Wendy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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