Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 139
“If you believe,” he shouted to them, “clap your hands; don’t let Tink die.”
Who acts: you, Peter, answer, Tink · What happens: believe, shout, clap, not let, die · To what, where: answer, hands · 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 (you, Peter, answer, 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 | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 believe | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 let | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shouted | nsubj |
| 8 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shouted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 clap | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 clap | punct |
| 13 | clap | clap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 shouted | conj |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hands | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 clap | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 let | aux |
| 18 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 let | advmod |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Tink | Tink | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 die | nsubj |
| 21 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | Peter | answer | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | clap in a quote | infinitive | Peter not said here | your hands | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not let in a quote | imperative · do-support | answer not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | die in a quote | infinitive | Tink | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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