Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 27
“We’ll fit in, sir,” they assured him.
Who acts: We, twins · What happens: fit in, assure · To what, where: Rather · 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 (We, twins), 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 | _ | 4 fit | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fit | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fit | aux |
| 4 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 assured | ccomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 fit | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sir | punct |
| 7 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fit | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fit | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fit | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 assured | nsubj |
| 11 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 assured | iobj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 assured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit in in a quote | future | We | sir vocative | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | assure | past | twins = twin | Rather | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient 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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