Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 3
It need not be said who was the captain.
What happens: not say, be · To what, where: knee, captain · 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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 2 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | aux:pass |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 captain | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 captain | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 captain | det |
| 9 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | present · passive | knee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the captain | 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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