Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 122
“O Tink, did you drink it to save me?”
Who acts: Tink · What happens: drink, save · To what, where: matter, rage
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), 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 drink | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 Tink | discourse |
| 3 | Tink | Tink | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 drink | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tink | punct |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 drink | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 drink | nsubj |
| 7 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 drink | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 save | mark |
| 10 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 drink | advcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 save | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 drink | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink in a quote | past · do-support | Tink | matter | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | save in a quote | to-infinitive | Tink not said here | rage | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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