Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 7
“Oh, mummy,” cried the first twin, “you mean that there is a lady also, don’t you?
Who acts: mummy, you, lady · What happens: cry, mean, be, not do · To what, where: first twin, you · 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 (mummy, you, lady), 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 mummy | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 mummy | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | mummy | mummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mummy | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mummy | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 7 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mean | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 mean | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 mean | nsubj |
| 14 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 is | mark |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 is | expl |
| 17 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 mean | ccomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lady | det |
| 19 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 is | nsubj |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 is | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 mean | conj |
| 23 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 do | advmod |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 do | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | mummy | the first twin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | a lady | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not do in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
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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