Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 113
“I am just Tootles,” he said, “and nobody minds me.
Who acts: Tootles, nobody · What happens: be, say, mind · To what, where: Tootles · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tootles, nobody), 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 | _ | 5 Tootles | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Tootles | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Tootles | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 Tootles | advmod |
| 5 | Tootles | tootle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tootles | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tootles | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 minds | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 minds | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 minds | cc |
| 13 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 minds | nsubj |
| 14 | minds | mind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 minds | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Tootles = tootle | Tootles | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Tootles | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mind in a quote | present | nobody | Tootles = tootle | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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