Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 157
The upper world had called him, but would give no help.
What happens: call, give · To what, where: upper world, help · 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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 world | det |
| 2 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 world | amod |
| 3 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | aux |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 called | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 give | cc |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 called | conj |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 help | det |
| 12 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · perfect · passive | the upper world | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme he=Result | |||||
| 2 | give | would | no help | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Theme |
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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