Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 94
“O George, never ask me to do that.
Who acts: George · What happens: not ask, do · To what, where: man, that
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 (George), 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 | _ | 6 ask | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 George | discourse |
| 3 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ask | punct |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 ask | advmod |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 ask | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ask | xcomp |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | George | man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | George not said here | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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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