Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 25
“Now don’t interrupt,” he would beg of her.
Who acts: Darling · What happens: not interrupt, beg · 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 (Darling), 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 | _ | 5 interrupt | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 interrupt | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 interrupt | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 interrupt | advmod |
| 5 | interrupt | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 interrupt | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 interrupt | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 beg | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 beg | aux |
| 10 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 interrupt | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 beg | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 interrupt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not interrupt in a quote | present · do-support | now | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | would | Darling | of Wendy | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: 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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