Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 78
“Ah, old lady,” said Peter, hanging up his gun.
Who acts: old lady · What happens: say, hang up · To what, where: gun · 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 (old lady), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 lady | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | amod |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lady | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lady | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hanging | punct |
| 11 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 said | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 hanging | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 gun | nmod:poss |
| 14 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hanging | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | old lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hang up | gerund | old lady not said here | Wendy's gun | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Patient |
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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