Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 137
“Surely,” said John, like one who had lost faith in his memory, “he used not to sleep in the kennel?”
Who acts: John · What happens: say, lose, use, not sleep · To what, where: faith, memory, kennel · 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), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Surely | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Surely | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lost | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lost | aux |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 one | acl:relcl |
| 13 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 memory | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 memory | nmod:poss |
| 16 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 used | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 used | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 used | nsubj |
| 20 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 sleep | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 sleep | mark |
| 23 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 used | advcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 kennel | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 kennel | det |
| 26 | kennel | kennel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sleep | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | John | surely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lose | past · perfect | faith | John's memory | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | use in a quote | past | John | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not sleep in a quote | to-infinitive | John not said here | the kennel | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in kennel=Location |
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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