Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 49
“I don’t see how it can have a happy ending,” said the second twin.
Who acts: second twin, bed · What happens: not see, have, say · To what, where: happy ending · 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 (second twin, bed), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 have | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ending | det |
| 11 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ending | amod |
| 12 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 twin | det |
| 17 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 twin | amod |
| 18 | twin | twin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see in a quote | present · do-support | the second twin = twin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | can | bed | a happy ending | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ending=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the second twin | 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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