Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 95
He wanted John to decide, and John wanted him to decide.
Who acts: Michael, John · What happens: want, decide · To what, where: John, Michael
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 (Michael, John), 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 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wanted | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 decide | mark |
| 5 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wanted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wanted | cc |
| 8 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 wanted | nsubj |
| 9 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wanted | parataxis |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wanted | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 decide | mark |
| 12 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wanted | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Michael | John | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | decide not said to happen | to-infinitive | John not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | want | past | John | Michael | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | decide not said to happen | to-infinitive | Michael not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «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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