Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 91
You may be sure she begged his pardon; and then, feeling drowsy, he curled round in the kennel.
Who acts: You, corner, man · What happens: be, beg, feel, curl, pardon · To what, where: pardon, kennel
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 (You, corner, man), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 begged | nsubj |
| 6 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 8 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 begged | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 feeling | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 feeling | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 feeling | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feeling | punct |
| 13 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 14 | drowsy | drowsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feeling | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 curled | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 curled | nsubj |
| 17 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 feeling | parataxis |
| 18 | round | round | ADV | _ | 17 curled | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 kennel | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 kennel | det |
| 21 | kennel | kennel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 curled | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | You | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | corner | man's pardon | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | feel | gerund | You not said here | then | drowsy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | curl | participle | man | the kennel | round property | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | pardon | man | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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