Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 14

“We could lie doubled up,” said Nibs.

Who acts: We, Nibs · What happens: lie, double up, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Nibs), 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	_	4 lie	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 lie	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lie	aux
4	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	doubled	double	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lie	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 doubled	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lie	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 lie	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Nibs	nib	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	lie in a quote	could	We	tree rules
2	double up in a quote	participle	We not said here	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	Nibs	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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