Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 244
“I came back for my mother,” he explained, “to take her to the Neverland.”
Who acts: Peter · What happens: come back, explain, take · To what, where: Jane, Neverland · 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), 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 | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 explained | advcl |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 mother | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 explained | nsubj |
| 11 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 explained | ccomp |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Neverland | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Neverland | det |
| 19 | Neverland | Neverland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back in a quote | past | Peter | for my mother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | past | Peter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | Jane | the Neverland | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to neverland=Destination |
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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