Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 125

“John,” he said, looking around him doubtfully, “I think I have been here before.”

Who acts: John, I · What happens: say, look, think, 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 (John, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 John	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 John	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 looking	punct
8	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
9	around	around	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 looking	obl
11	doubtfully	doubtfully	ADV	_	8 looking	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 think	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 think	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 think	nsubj
15	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 looking	parataxis
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 here	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 here	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 here	cop
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 think	ccomp
20	before	before	ADV	_	19 here	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	John		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	look	gerund	John not said here	around John; doubtfully property	tree rules
3	think speech: other in a quote	present	I		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present · perfect	I	before, here 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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