Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 144

“Then are you not really our mother, Wendy?” asked Michael, who was surely sleepy.

Who acts: Michael, mother · What happens: not be, ask, be · To what, where: mother, Michael · 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 (Michael, mother), 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 mother	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 mother	advmod
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mother	cop
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 mother	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 mother	advmod
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 mother	advmod
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Wendy	punct
10	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mother	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 Wendy	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 Wendy	punct
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 asked	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sleepy	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 sleepy	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sleepy	cop
18	surely	surely	ADV	_	19 sleepy	advmod
19	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Michael	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	Michael	our mother		then		tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	our mother		Michael			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent michael=Recipient
3	is	past	Michael				sleepy, surely 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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