Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 170
“Yes, so do I. What was the last thing Peter ever said to you?”
Who acts: you, I., Peter · What happens: do, be, say · To what, where: last thing, you · 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., Peter), 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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thing | nsubj |
| 7 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 thing | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thing | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 thing | det |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thing | amod |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | parataxis |
| 12 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 said | advmod |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thing | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | I. | the last thing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Peter | you | ever | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient |
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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