Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 111
“She wants me to unbar the window,” thought Peter, “but I won’t, not I!”
Who acts: music, Peter · What happens: want, unbar, think · To what, where: Peter, window · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music, Peter), 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 wants | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | advcl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wants | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 unbar | mark |
| 6 | unbar | unbar | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wants | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 window | det |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 unbar | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wo | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 wo | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 wo | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 wo | nsubj |
| 17 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 wo | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 I | punct |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 I | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 wo | conj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 I | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 wo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | music | Peter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | unbar not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | the window | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Peter | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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