Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 92
“Of course it is Saturday night, Peter,” Wendy said, relenting.
Who acts: course, Wendy · What happens: be, say, relent · 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 (course, 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 | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 night | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 night | cop |
| 6 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 night | compound |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Peter | punct |
| 9 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 night | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 night | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 night | punct |
| 12 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 relenting | punct |
| 15 | relenting | relent | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | course | of Saturday night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Wendy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | relent | gerund | Wendy not said here | 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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