Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 54
“Keep back, lady, no one is going to catch me and make me a man.”
Who acts: you, one · What happens: keep back, go, catch, make · To what, where: lady, Peter, man
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, one), 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 Keep | punct |
| 2 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 Keep | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lady | punct |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Keep | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 going | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 going | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | aux |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Keep | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 catch | mark |
| 12 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 going | xcomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 catch | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 make | cc |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 catch | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep back in a quote | imperative | you not said here | lady | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | no one | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | catch in a quote | to-infinitive | no one not said here | Peter | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | infinitive | no one not said here | a man | Peter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary man=Product |
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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