Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 28
“Is it quite good form to be distinguished at anything?” the tap-tap from his school replied.
Who acts: bauble, tap tap · What happens: be, distinguish, reply · To what, where: good form, anything · 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 (bauble, tap tap), 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 form | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 form | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 form | nsubj |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 form | advmod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 form | amod |
| 6 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 distinguished | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 distinguished | aux:pass |
| 9 | distinguished | distinguish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 form | acl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 anything | case |
| 11 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 distinguished | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 form | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 form | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tap | det |
| 15 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tap | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 tap | punct |
| 17 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 replied | nsubj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 school | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 school | nmod:poss |
| 20 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tap | nmod |
| 21 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | bauble | good form | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | distinguish in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | the tap tap from form's school not said here | anything | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V PP» | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: ask | past | the tap tap from form's school | vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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