Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 48
“It’s awfully sad,” the first twin said cheerfully.
Who acts: bed, first twin · What happens: be, say · 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 (bed, first twin), 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 sad | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sad | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sad | cop |
| 4 | awfully | awfully | ADV | _ | 5 sad | advmod |
| 5 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sad | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sad | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 twin | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 twin | amod |
| 10 | twin | twin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | cheerfully | cheerfully | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | bed | awfully, sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the first twin | cheerfully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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