Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 98
“It is sweet, Peter, isn’t it?”
Who acts: toil · What happens: be
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 (toil), 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 | _ | 4 sweet | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sweet | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sweet | cop |
| 4 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Peter | punct |
| 6 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sweet | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 n’t | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 n’t | cop |
| 9 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 sweet | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 n’t | nsubj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sweet | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sweet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | toil | Peter vocative; sweet property | 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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