Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 130
Her voice was so low that at first he could not make out what she said.
Who acts: voice, Tink, head · What happens: be, not make out, say · 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 (voice, Tink, head), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 voice | nmod:poss |
| 2 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 low | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 low | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 low | advmod |
| 5 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 first | case |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 make | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 make | advmod |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 low | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 make | compound:prt |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 said | obj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 low | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | head's voice | low property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not make out | could | Tink | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | head | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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