Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 196
“Is Michael asleep?” he asked, with a careless glance at Jane.
Who acts: John · What happens: be, ask · 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 (John), 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 asleep | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 asleep | cop |
| 3 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asleep | compound |
| 4 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 asked | parataxis |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 asleep | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 asleep | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 glance | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 glance | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 glance | det |
| 12 | careless | careless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 glance | amod |
| 13 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Jane | case |
| 15 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 glance | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | asleep property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | John | with a careless glance at Jane | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how 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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