Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 37
“I just thought they did,” Curly broke in excitedly.
Who acts: I, children, Curly · What happens: think, do, break · 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 (I, children, Curly), 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 thought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 thought | advmod |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 9 | Curly | Curly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 broke | nsubj |
| 10 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 excitedly | case |
| 12 | excitedly | excitedly | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 broke | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | children = child | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | break | past | Curly | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in excitedly=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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