Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 96
“Don’t you remember,” she asked, amazed, “how you killed him and saved all our lives?”
Who acts: you, Nana · What happens: not do, remember, ask, kill, save · To what, where: Hook, lives · 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, Nana), 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 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Do | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 remember | nsubj |
| 5 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 remember | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 amazed | punct |
| 11 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 killed | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 killed | punct |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 killed | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 killed | nsubj |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 killed | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saved | cc |
| 19 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 killed | conj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 lives | det:predet |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 lives | nmod:poss |
| 22 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 saved | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | remember in a quote | present | you | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Nana | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | past | you | Hook | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | save in a quote | past | you not said here | our lives | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
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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