Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 192
“Hullo, Peter,” she replied faintly, squeezing herself as small as possible.
Who acts: Jane · What happens: reply, squeeze · To what, where: Jane
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 | _ | 2 Hullo | punct |
| 2 | Hullo | hullo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Peter | punct |
| 4 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Hullo | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hullo | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hullo | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | faintly | faintly | ADV | _ | 8 replied | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 squeezing | punct |
| 11 | squeezing | squeeze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 replied | advcl |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 squeezing | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 small | advmod |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 squeezing | xcomp |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 possible | mark |
| 16 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 small | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Jane | faintly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | squeeze | gerund | Jane not said here | Jane | small property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=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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