Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 8

She is not dead, is she?”

Who acts: lady · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: lady

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 (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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dead	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 dead	advmod
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 she	cop
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dead	nsubj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	lady					dead property	tree rules
2	is a	present		lady					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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