Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 83
“Dance away, my little man,” said Peter, who was in high good humour.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: dance away, say, be · To what, where: little man, high good humour · 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 (Peter), 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 Dance | punct |
| 2 | Dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 Dance | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 man | nmod:poss |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Dance | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dance | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dance | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 humour | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 humour | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 humour | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 humour | case |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 humour | amod |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 humour | amod |
| 18 | humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Peter | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance away in a quote | infinitive | my little man | away property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Peter | high good humour | 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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