Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 38
“You don’t feel, Peter,” she said falteringly, “that you would like to say anything to my parents about a very sweet subject?”
Who acts: You, Darling · What happens: not feel, say, like · To what, where: Peter, anything, parents · 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, Darling), 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 feel | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feel | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 feel | advmod |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Peter | punct |
| 7 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 feel | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 feel | ccomp |
| 12 | falteringly | falteringly | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 like | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 like | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 like | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 like | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 like | aux |
| 18 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 feel | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 say | mark |
| 20 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 like | xcomp |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 say | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 parents | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 parents | nmod:poss |
| 24 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 anything | nmod |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 29 subject | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 subject | det |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 sweet | advmod |
| 28 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 subject | amod |
| 29 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 anything | nmod |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel in a quote | present · do-support | You | Peter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Darling | falteringly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | like in a quote | would | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | anything | my parents | about a sweet subject | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Topic to parent=Recipient |
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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