Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 173
After all, their faces said, were they not noodles to want to go?
Who acts: faces, others · What happens: say, not be, want, go · To what, where: noodles · 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 (faces, others), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 all | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 said | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 all | punct |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 faces | nmod:poss |
| 5 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 noodles | punct |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 noodles | cop |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 noodles | nsubj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 noodles | advmod |
| 11 | noodles | noodle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 want | mark |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 want | xcomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | others's faces | after all | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | others = other | noodles | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | want | to-infinitive | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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