Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 115
The reason was so simple: “I’m fond of her too.
Who acts: reason, Wendy · What happens: be · 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 (reason, Wendy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 reason | det |
| 2 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 simple | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 simple | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 simple | advmod |
| 5 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 ’m | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 ’m | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 ’m | nsubj |
| 9 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 simple | parataxis |
| 10 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ’m | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fond | obl |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 ’m | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 simple | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the reason | simple property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | Wendy | fond property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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