Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 121
“Then,” he continued, in the short sharp voice of one accustomed to be obeyed, “Tinker Bell will take you across the sea.
Who acts: first, one, Tinker Bell · What happens: continue, accustom, obey, take · To what, where: short sharp voice, you, sea
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 (first, one, Tinker Bell), 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 | _ | 6 continued | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 continued | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 continued | nsubj |
| 6 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 voice | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 voice | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 10 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 voice | amod |
| 11 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 voice | amod |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 continued | obl |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 accustomed | mark |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 accustomed | nsubj |
| 15 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 voice | acl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 obeyed | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 obeyed | aux:pass |
| 18 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 accustomed | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 take | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Bell | punct |
| 21 | Tinker | tinker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Bell | compound |
| 22 | Bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 take | aux |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 continued | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 take | obj |
| 26 | across | across | ADP | _ | 28 sea | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sea | det |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | first | the short sharp voice | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | accustom | participle | one | the short sharp voice not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | obey | to-infinitive · passive | one not said here | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | future | Tinker Bell | you | the sea | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
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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