Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 181
“I often hear it when I am sleeping,” Jane said.
Who acts: Jane · What happens: hear, sleep, say · To what, where: crow · 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 (Jane), 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 hear | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 hear | advmod |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hear | obj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 sleeping | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 sleeping | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sleeping | aux |
| 9 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 hear | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
| 12 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | present | Jane | crow | often property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | sleep in a quote | present · progressive | Jane | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Jane | 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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