Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 20
“I knew them,” John said, to annoy the others.
Who acts: John · What happens: know, say, annoy · To what, where: Tootles, others · 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 (John), 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 | _ | 3 knew | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
| 7 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 annoy | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 annoy | mark |
| 11 | annoy | annoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 others | det |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 annoy | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | past | John | Tootles = tootle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | John | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | annoy | to-infinitive | the others | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus other=Experiencer |
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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