Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 14
Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it, but I can picture him trying, and then going off in a passion, slamming the door.
Who acts: Wendy, Napoleon, I · What happens: think, get, picture, try, go off, slam · To what, where: kiss, Napoleon, passion, door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy, Napoleon, I), 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 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Napoleon | Napoleon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 got | aux |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 picture | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 picture | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 picture | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 picture | aux |
| 12 | picture | picture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 got | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 picture | obj |
| 14 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 picture | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 going | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 going | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 going | advmod |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 trying | conj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 going | compound:prt |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 passion | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 passion | det |
| 22 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 going | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 slamming | punct |
| 24 | slamming | slam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 trying | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 door | det |
| 26 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slamming | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Wendy | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | could · perfect | Napoleon | kiss | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | picture | can | I | Napoleon | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | try | gerund | I not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | go off | gerund | I not said here | a passion | then | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in passion=Location | |||
| 6 | slam | gerund | I not said here | the door | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
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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