Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 146
Do you know, Jane, I sometimes wonder whether I ever did really fly.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: know, wonder, fly · To what, where: Jane · 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, I), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Jane | punct |
| 5 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wonder | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 wonder | nsubj |
| 8 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 wonder | advmod |
| 9 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | parataxis |
| 10 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 15 fly | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 fly | nsubj |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 fly | advmod |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fly | aux |
| 14 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 fly | advmod |
| 15 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wonder | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | you | Jane | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer jane=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | present | I | sometimes property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fly | past · do-support | I | ever | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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