Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 97
“I forget them after I kill them,” he replied carelessly.
Who acts: Hook · What happens: forget, kill, reply · To what, where: 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 (Hook), 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 | _ | 3 forget | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 forget | nsubj |
| 3 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forget | obj |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 kill | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 kill | nsubj |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 forget | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kill | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 forget | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 forget | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forget | parataxis |
| 13 | carelessly | carelessly | ADV | _ | 12 replied | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget in a quote | present | Hook | lives = life | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | present | Hook | lives = life | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Hook | carelessly property | vn respond-113 «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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