Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 49
There is no beating about the bush, for we know quite well what it was, and have got to tell.
Who acts: beating, we · What happens: be, know, get, tell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beating, we), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 beating | det |
| 4 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 bush | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bush | det |
| 7 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beating | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | parataxis |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 well | advmod |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 what | advmod |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 know | obj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 was | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 got | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 got | cc |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 got | aux |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 know | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 tell | mark |
| 22 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 got | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no beating about the bush | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | present | we | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | present · perfect | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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