Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 141
“Yes, you do,” says Jane, “you see when you were a little girl.”
Who acts: you, Jane · What happens: do, say, see, be · To what, where: little girl · 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 (you, Jane), 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 | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | conj |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 girl | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 girl | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 girl | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 girl | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 girl | amod |
| 19 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Jane | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | you | a little girl | 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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