Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 29
“Mind you, I am not sure that we have a drawing-room, but we pretend we have, and it’s all the same.
Who acts: you, Rather, we · What happens: mind, not be, have, pretend · To what, where: you, drawing room · 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 (you, Rather, we), 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 Mind | punct |
| 2 | Mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Mind | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 sure | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sure | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 sure | advmod |
| 8 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Mind | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sure | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 room | det |
| 13 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 room | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 drawing | punct |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pretend | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 pretend | cc |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 pretend | nsubj |
| 19 | pretend | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sure | ccomp |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 pretend | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ’s | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ’s | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ’s | nsubj |
| 25 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 pretend | conj |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 same | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 same | det |
| 28 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ’s | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind in a quote | imperative | you not said here | you | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | Rather | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | we | a drawing room | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pretend in a quote | present | we | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | we | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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