Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 126
She whispered in his ear “You silly ass,” and then, tottering to her chamber, lay down on the bed.
Who acts: rage, You · What happens: whisper, ass, totter, lay down · To what, where: ear, chamber, bed · 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, You), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 whispered | nsubj |
| 2 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 ear | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ear | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whispered | obl |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 ass | punct |
| 7 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 ass | nsubj |
| 8 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ass | amod |
| 9 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whispered | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ass | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 ass | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tottering | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 tottering | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tottering | punct |
| 15 | tottering | totter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 whispered | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 chamber | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 18 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tottering | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lay | punct |
| 20 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 whispered | advcl |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 lay | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 bed | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bed | det |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lay | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | rage | Tink's ear | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ass in a quote | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | totter | gerund | rage not said here | rage's chamber | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to chamber=Destination | |||
| 4 | lay down | infinitive | rage not said here | the bed | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bed=Destination |
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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