Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 89
“I won’t open unless you speak,” Peter cried.
Who acts: Peter, you · What happens: not open, speak, cry · 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 (Peter, you), 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 | _ | 5 open | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 open | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 open | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 open | advmod |
| 5 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 8 speak | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 speak | nsubj |
| 8 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 open | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 speak | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 open | punct |
| 11 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not open in a quote | future | Peter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Peter | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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