Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 211
“O Peter, don’t waste the fairy dust on me.”
Who acts: Peter · What happens: not waste · To what, where: fairy dust
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), 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 | _ | 7 waste | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 Peter | discourse |
| 3 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 waste | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Peter | punct |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 waste | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 waste | advmod |
| 7 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dust | det |
| 9 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dust | amod |
| 10 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waste | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 waste | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 waste | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 waste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not waste in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Peter | the fairy dust | on judgment | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dust=Asset on i=Goal |
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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