Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 96
“If you wish it,” he replied, as coolly as if she had asked him to pass the nuts.
Who acts: you, dread, mother · What happens: wish, reply, ask, pass · To what, where: thought, dread, nuts · 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 (you, dread, mother), 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 | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 wish | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 coolly | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 coolly | advmod |
| 12 | coolly | coolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 replied | xcomp |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 asked | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 asked | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 asked | aux |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 coolly | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | iobj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 pass | mark |
| 20 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 asked | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 nuts | det |
| 22 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 pass | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | thought | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | dread | coolly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past · perfect | mother | dread | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | pass not said to happen | to-infinitive | mother not said here | the nuts | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nut=Trajectory |
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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