Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 144
“Does it fly,” asks the artful child, “the way you flew when you were a little girl?”
Who acts: sash, artful child, way, you · What happens: fly, ask, 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 (sash, artful child, way, you), 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 fly | punct |
| 2 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fly | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fly | nsubj |
| 4 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 asks | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fly | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fly | punct |
| 7 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 child | det |
| 9 | artful | artful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 child | amod |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asks | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flew | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 flew | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flew | nsubj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 flew | nsubj |
| 16 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asks | parataxis |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 girl | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 girl | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 girl | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 girl | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 girl | amod |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flew | advcl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 asks | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly in a quote | present · do-support | sash | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | the artful child | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fly in a quote | past | the way | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 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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