Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 121

“It was poisoned, Peter,” she told him softly; “and now I am going to be dead.”

Who acts: rage · What happens: poison, tell, go, be · To what, where: matter, 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 (rage), 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	_	4 poisoned	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poisoned	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poisoned	aux:pass
4	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 told	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Peter	punct
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 poisoned	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Peter	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 poisoned	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	softly	softly	ADV	_	10 told	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 going	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 going	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 going	cc
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 going	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 going	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 going	aux
19	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 told	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	22 dead	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 dead	cop
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 going	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 going	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	poison in a quote	past · passive		matter				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient peter=Result
2	tell speech: assert	past	rage		Peter		softly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	present · progressive	rage			now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is in a quote	to-infinitive	rage not said here				dead property	tree rules

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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