Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 73
“Don’t irritate him unnecessarily,” had been Wendy’s instructions in the hold; so Tootles stepped forward politely.
Who acts: you, Tootles · What happens: not irritate, be, step forward · To what, where: anon, hold, instructions
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 (you, Tootles), 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 | _ | 4 irritate | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 irritate | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 irritate | advmod |
| 4 | irritate | irritate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 irritate | obj |
| 6 | unnecessarily | unnecessarily | ADV | _ | 4 irritate | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 irritate | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 irritate | punct |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 instructions | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 instructions | cop |
| 11 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 instructions | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Wendy | case |
| 13 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 irritate | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hold | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hold | det |
| 16 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 irritate | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 stepped | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 stepped | advmod |
| 19 | Tootles | tootle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 stepped | nsubj |
| 20 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 irritate | conj |
| 21 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 20 stepped | advmod |
| 22 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 20 stepped | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 irritate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not irritate in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | anon | the hold | unnecessarily property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | Wendy's instructions | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | step forward | past | Tootles | forward, politely property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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