Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 63
Now that we look at her closely and remember the gaiety of her in the old days, all gone now just because she has lost her babes, I find I won’t be able to say nasty things about her after all.
Who acts: we, woman, I · What happens: look, remember, go, lose, find, not be · To what, where: gaiety, babes, nasty things · 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, woman, I), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 look | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 look | mark |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 look | nsubj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 closely | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 closely | nmod:poss |
| 7 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 4 look | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 remember | cc |
| 9 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 look | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gaiety | det |
| 11 | gaiety | gaiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remember | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gaiety | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 days | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 days | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 days | amod |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 remember | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gone | punct |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 gone | advmod |
| 20 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 look | conj |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 gone | advmod |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 lost | advmod |
| 23 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 lost | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 lost | nsubj |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 lost | aux |
| 26 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 gone | advcl |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 babes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | babes | babe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 lost | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 find | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 find | nsubj |
| 31 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 lost | advcl |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 able | nsubj |
| 33 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 able | aux |
| 34 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 able | advmod |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 able | cop |
| 36 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 find | ccomp |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 say | mark |
| 38 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 able | xcomp |
| 39 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 things | amod |
| 40 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 say | obj |
| 41 | about | about | ADP | _ | 44 all | case |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 all | nmod:poss |
| 43 | after | after | ADP | _ | 44 all | case |
| 44 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 things | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | we | now | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at closely=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remember | infinitive | we not said here | the gaiety of woman | day | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent gaiety=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | participle | we not said here | now | all property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | lose | present · perfect | woman | woman's babes | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babe=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | find | present | I | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not is | future | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | nasty things | about all | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
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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