Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 79
“Lots of little boys,” sneered Liza.
Who acts: Lots · What happens: sneer · To what, where: Liza
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 (Lots), 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 | _ | 2 Lots | punct |
| 2 | Lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sneered | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 boys | case |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boys | amod |
| 5 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Lots | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lots | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lots | punct |
| 8 | sneered | sneer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Liza | Liza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sneered | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sneered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sneer | past | Lots of little boys | Liza | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liza=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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