Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 128
“So it is,” Michael said, but not with much conviction.
Who acts: mouth, Michael · What happens: be, say · 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 (mouth, Michael), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 is | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 is | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 7 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 conviction | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 conviction | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 conviction | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 conviction | case |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 conviction | amod |
| 14 | conviction | conviction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | mouth | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Michael | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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