Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 114
“Besides,” said Peter, quite believing himself, “I never fell asleep.”
Who acts: Peter · What happens: say, believe, not fall · To what, where: Peter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Besides | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Besides | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 believing | punct |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 believing | advmod |
| 9 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 believing | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 fell | advmod |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 16 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fell | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | believe | gerund | Peter not said here | Peter | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not fall in a quote | past | Peter | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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