Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 76
So Tootles explained prudently, “You see, sir, I don’t think my mother would like me to be a pirate.
Who acts: Tootles, You, mother · What happens: explain, see, not think, like, be · To what, where: sir, Tootles, pirate · 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 (Tootles, You, mother), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 explained | advmod |
| 2 | Tootles | tootle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 explained | nsubj |
| 3 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | prudently | prudently | ADV | _ | 3 explained | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 7 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 explained | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sir | punct |
| 10 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 think | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 think | aux |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 think | advmod |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 see | conj |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 like | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 like | aux |
| 19 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 think | ccomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 like | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 pirate | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 pirate | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pirate | det |
| 24 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 like | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | past | Tootles | prudently property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | You | sir | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sir=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | Tootles = tootle | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | like in a quote | would | my mother | Tootles = tootle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | my mother not said here | a pirate | tree rules |
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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