Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 132
She was saying that she thought she could get well again if children believed in fairies.
Who acts: head · What happens: say, think, get, believe · To what, where: children · 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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saying | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saying | aux |
| 3 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 thought | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saying | ccomp |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 get | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | aux |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 get | advmod |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 get | advmod |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 believed | mark |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 get | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 fairies | case |
| 16 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 believed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · progressive | head | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | head | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | could | head | again | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | believe a condition, not said to happen | participle · passive | children | in fairies | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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