Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 25
“It’s awfully puzzling,” said Tootles, who knew the story by heart.
Who acts: no., Tootles · What happens: puzzle, say, know · To what, where: story · 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 (no., Tootles), 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 | _ | 5 puzzling | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 puzzling | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 puzzling | aux |
| 4 | awfully | awfully | ADV | _ | 5 puzzling | advmod |
| 5 | puzzling | puzzle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 puzzling | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 puzzling | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Tootles | tootle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knew | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Tootles | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knew | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 heart | case |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puzzle in a quote | present · progressive | no. | awfully property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Tootles | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know | past | Tootles | the story | by heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
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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