Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 83
“But if I had been a weak man,” he said.
Who acts: head · What happens: be, say · To what, where: weak man · 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 (head), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:2195): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 man | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 man | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 man | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 man | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 man | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect | head | a weak man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | head | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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