Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 119
“These are my last words, dear boys,” she said firmly.
Who acts: These, Britannia · What happens: be, say · To what, where: last words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, Britannia), 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 | _ | 6 words | punct |
| 2 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 words | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 words | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 words | nmod:poss |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 boys | punct |
| 8 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boys | amod |
| 9 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 words | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 words | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 words | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | These | my last words and dear boys | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Britannia | firmly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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