Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 84
I am not sure that this was true, but Peter thought it was true; and it scared them.
Who acts: I, this, Peter, bed · What happens: not be, be, think, scare · To what, where: boys · 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 (I, this, Peter, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 sure | advmod |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 true | mark |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 true | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 true | cop |
| 8 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 thought | cc |
| 11 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 true | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 true | cop |
| 15 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 scared | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 scared | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 scared | nsubj |
| 19 | scared | scare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | parataxis |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 scared | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | this | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Peter | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | bed | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | scare | past | bed | boys = boy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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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