Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 44
“Would you send me to school?” he inquired craftily.
Who acts: you, Peter · What happens: send, inquire · To what, where: Peter · 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, 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 | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 2 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 send | nsubj |
| 4 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 send | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 school | case |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 send | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 inquired | nsubj |
| 11 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | parataxis |
| 12 | craftily | craftily | ADV | _ | 11 inquired | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | would | you | Peter | to school | tree rules | |||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | Peter | craftily property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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