Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 20
“I don’t think he is a cypher,” Tootles cried instantly.
Who acts: I, truth, Tootles · What happens: not think, be, cry · To what, where: cypher · 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 (I, truth, Tootles), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cried | ccomp |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cypher | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cypher | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cypher | det |
| 9 | cypher | cypher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 12 | Tootles | tootle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 13 cried | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | truth | a cypher | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Tootles | instantly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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