Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 165
“I’m youth, I’m joy,” Peter answered at a venture, “I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”
Who acts: Peter, little bird · What happens: be, answer, break out · To what, where: youth, joy, venture, little bird, egg · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, little bird), 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 | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’m | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’m | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ’m | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 ’m | nsubj |
| 7 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ’m | conj |
| 8 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ’m | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ’m | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 11 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ’m | parataxis |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 venture | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 venture | det |
| 15 | venture | venture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ’m | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 ’m | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 ’m | nsubj |
| 19 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 answered | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bird | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bird | amod |
| 22 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ’m | obj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 broken | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 broken | aux |
| 25 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 bird | acl:relcl |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 egg | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 egg | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 egg | det |
| 29 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 broken | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | Peter | youth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | Peter | joy | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot joy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Peter | a venture | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | Peter | a little bird | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bird=Theme | ||||
| 5 | break out in a quote | present · perfect | a little bird | the egg | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Patient |
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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