Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 88
“But it is punishment, isn’t it, George?
Who acts: punishment · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: punishment
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 (punishment), 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 | _ | 9 it | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 punishment | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 punishment | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 punishment | cop |
| 5 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 it | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 punishment | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 it | cop |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 it | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 George | punct |
| 11 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 it | appos |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 George | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | punishment | punishment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | punishment | punishment | 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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