Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 18
If we had returned sooner to look with sorrowful sympathy at her, she would probably have cried, “Don’t be silly; what do I matter?
Who acts: we, Mrs. · What happens: return, look, cry, not be, matter · 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 (we, Mrs.), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 returned | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | aux |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 cried | advcl |
| 5 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 returned | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 returned | advcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 sympathy | case |
| 9 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sympathy | amod |
| 10 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 look | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cried | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 cried | aux |
| 16 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 18 cried | advmod |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 cried | aux |
| 18 | cried | cry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 silly | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 silly | punct |
| 21 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 silly | aux |
| 22 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 silly | advmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 silly | cop |
| 24 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cried | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 matter | punct |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 matter | obj |
| 27 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 matter | aux |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 matter | nsubj |
| 29 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 silly | parataxis |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | we | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | we not said here | with sorrowful sympathy; at Mrs. | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | would · perfect | Mrs. | probably property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Mrs. not said here | silly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | matter in a quote | present · do-support | Mrs. | 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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