Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 117
“Why, Tink, how dare you drink my medicine?”
Who acts: Tink, my · What happens: dare, drink, medicine · To what, where: you, medicine
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 (Tink, my), 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 | _ | 7 dare | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 dare | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Tink | punct |
| 4 | Tink | Tink | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dare | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dare | punct |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 dare | advmod |
| 7 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 dare | obj |
| 9 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dare | xcomp |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 medicine | nmod:poss |
| 11 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drink | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 dare | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare in a quote | infinitive | Tink | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | drink in a quote | infinitive | Tink not said here | my medicine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient | ||||
| 3 | medicine in a quote | my | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=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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