Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 78
He winked at Slightly, who said mournfully, “I don’t think so,” as if he wished things had been otherwise.
Who acts: din, I · What happens: wink, say, not think, wish, be · To what, where: things · 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 (din, I), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 winked | nsubj |
| 2 | winked | wink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 Slightly | case |
| 4 | Slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 2 winked | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 winked | conj |
| 8 | mournfully | mournfully | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 think | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 think | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 think | advmod |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 think | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 wished | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 wished | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wished | nsubj |
| 21 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wished | obj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 otherwise | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 otherwise | cop |
| 25 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 22 things | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 winked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wink | past | din | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | mournfully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wish a condition, not said to happen | past | din | things | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past · perfect | otherwise property | 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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