Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 137
She fancied she heard answers in the affirmative, and then again she wasn’t sure.
Who acts: girl · What happens: fancy, hear, not be · To what, where: answers, affirmative
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 (girl), 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 fancied | nsubj |
| 2 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fancied | ccomp |
| 5 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 affirmative | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 affirmative | det |
| 8 | affirmative | affirmative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heard | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sure | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sure | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 again | advmod |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 sure | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sure | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sure | cop |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 sure | advmod |
| 16 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fancied | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fancied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | past | girl | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | girl | answers | the affirmative | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | not is | past | girl | again | sure 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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