Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 153
“No,” he answered, pretending indifference, “I am not going with you, Wendy.”
Who acts: instinct · What happens: answer, pretend, not go · To what, where: indifference, Wendy · 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 (instinct), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pretending | punct |
| 8 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 answered | advcl |
| 9 | indifference | indifference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pretending | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 going | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 going | advmod |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 pretending | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 going | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Wendy | punct |
| 19 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 going | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | instinct | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pretend | gerund | instinct not said here | indifference | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not go in a quote | present · progressive | instinct | Wendy | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary |
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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