Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 15
“I always cut their hair myself,” said Wendy.
Who acts: Wendy · What happens: cut, say · To what, where: hair · 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 (Wendy), 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 cut | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 cut | advmod |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hair | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | obj |
| 7 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 4 cut | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut in a quote | past | Wendy | Nibs's hair | myself obl:unmarked; always property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Product | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Wendy | 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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