Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 99
“Quick Tink,” he whispered, “close the window; bar it!
Who acts: Quick Tink, window · What happens: whisper, close, bar · To what, where: window · 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 (Quick Tink, window), 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 | _ | 3 Tink | punct |
| 2 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Tink | amod |
| 3 | Tink | Tink | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 whispered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tink | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tink | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 whispered | nsubj |
| 7 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 close | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 close | punct |
| 10 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 whispered | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 window | det |
| 12 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 close | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 bar | punct |
| 14 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 whispered | obl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bar | nsubj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: express | past | Quick Tink | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | close in a quote | infinitive | the window | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient | |||||
| 3 | bar in a quote | window | 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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