Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 18
“Little less noise there,” Peter called out, determined that she should have fair play, however beastly a story it might be in his opinion.
Who acts: noise Peter, Peter, story · What happens: call out, determine, have, be · To what, where: noise Peter, fair play, opinion
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 (noise Peter, Peter, story), 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 noise | punct |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 noise | amod |
| 3 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 noise | amod |
| 4 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Peter | compound |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 noise | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 noise | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 noise | punct |
| 8 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 determined | nsubj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Peter | acl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 called | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Peter | punct |
| 12 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 determined | ccomp |
| 17 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 play | amod |
| 18 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 opinion | punct |
| 20 | however | however | ADV | _ | 21 beastly | advmod |
| 21 | beastly | beastly | ADV | _ | 29 opinion | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 story | det |
| 23 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 opinion | nsubj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 opinion | nsubj |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 opinion | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 opinion | cop |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 opinion | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 29 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 determined | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | participle | noise Peter not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | determine | past | noise Peter | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | should | Peter | fair play | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | might | a story | John's opinion | beastly property | tree rules |
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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