Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 4
“I wish he had been a white rat,” said Nibs.
Who acts: Nibs, Curly · What happens: wish, be, say · To what, where: white rat · 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 (Nibs, 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 | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rat | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rat | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 rat | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rat | det |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rat | amod |
| 9 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wish | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Nibs | nib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | Nibs = nib | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past · perfect | Curly | a white rat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Nibs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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