Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 176
“You will remember about changing your flannels, Peter?” she said, lingering over him.
Who acts: You, Peter · What happens: remember, change, say, linger · To what, where: flannels · 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 (You, Peter), 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 remember | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 remember | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 remember | aux |
| 4 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 6 changing | mark |
| 6 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 remember | advcl |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 flannels | nmod:poss |
| 8 | flannels | flannel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 changing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Peter | punct |
| 10 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 remember | vocative |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 remember | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 remember | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lingering | punct |
| 16 | lingering | linger | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lingering | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember in a quote | future | You | Peter vocative | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | change in a quote | gerund | You not said here | your flannels | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flannel=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | linger | gerund | Peter not said here | over face | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Location |
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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