Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 158
“I do believe,” she says, “that it is this nursery.”
Who acts: feeling, school · What happens: believe, say, be · To what, where: nursery · 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 (feeling, school), 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 believe | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 says | nsubj |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nursery | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 nursery | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 nursery | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 nursery | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 nursery | cop |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 nursery | det |
| 15 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe in a quote | present · do-support | feeling | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | feeling | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | school | this nursery | 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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