Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 209

“I can’t come,” she said apologetically, “I have forgotten how to fly.”

Who acts: judgment · What happens: not come, say, forget, fly · 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 (judgment), 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 come	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	advcl
10	apologetically	apologetically	ADV	_	9 said	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 forgotten	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 forgotten	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 forgotten	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 forgotten	aux
15	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	conj
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 fly	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 fly	mark
18	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 forgotten	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not come in a quote	can	judgment		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	judgment	apologetically property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	forget in a quote	present · perfect	judgment		tree rules
4	fly in a quote	to-infinitive	judgment not said here		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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