Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 68
Some like Peter best, and some like Wendy best, but I like her best.
Who acts: I · What happens: like · To what, where: best
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 (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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 best | nsubj |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 best | case |
| 3 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 best | nsubj |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 best | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 best | cc |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 Wendy | det |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 Wendy | case |
| 9 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 best | nsubj |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 best | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 like | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 like | nsubj |
| 14 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 best | parataxis |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 best | nmod:poss |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 like | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 best | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | I | Peter's best | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot good=Theme |
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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