Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 85
“Besides,” she said to Wendy, “he would be grown up by this time.”
Who acts: person · What happens: say, grow up · To what, where: Wendy, Peter · 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 (person), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Besides | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Besides | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Wendy | case |
| 8 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grown | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 grown | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 grown | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 grown | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 grown | aux:pass |
| 14 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 grown | compound:prt |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grown | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | person | Wendy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wendy=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | grow up in a quote | would · passive | Peter | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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