Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 65
Can they be John and Michael?
Who acts: figures · What happens: be · To what, where: John
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 (figures), 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 John | aux |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 John | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 John | cop |
| 4 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Michael | cc |
| 6 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 John | conj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 John | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | can | figures = figure | John and Michael | tree rules |
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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