Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 205
“Peter,” she said, faltering, “are you expecting me to fly away with you?”
Who acts: Peter, you · What happens: say, falter, expect, fly away · To what, where: Peter · 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 (Peter, you), 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 Peter | punct |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Peter | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Peter | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 faltering | punct |
| 8 | faltering | falter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 expecting | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 expecting | punct |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 expecting | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 expecting | nsubj |
| 13 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 faltering | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 expecting | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fly | mark |
| 16 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 expecting | advcl |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 fly | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 fly | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 faltering | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 faltering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | falter | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | expect in a quote | present · progressive | you | Peter | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fly away in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | with you; away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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