Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 99
“O Peter,” she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember.
Who acts: Peter, Nana · What happens: say, explain, not remember · 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 (Peter, 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 | _ | 3 Peter | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 Peter | discourse |
| 3 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Peter | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Peter | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shocked | punct |
| 9 | shocked | shocked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 explained | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 explained | cc |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 explained | advmod |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 explained | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 explained | nsubj |
| 15 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 remember | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 remember | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 remember | advmod |
| 19 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 explained | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | past | Nana | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not remember | could | Peter | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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