Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 86
“Oh no, he isn’t grown up,” Wendy assured her confidently, “and he is just my size.”
Who acts: Wendy, Peter · What happens: not grow up, assure, be · To what, where: Peter, person, size
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, Peter), 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 | _ | 13 assured | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 grown | discourse |
| 3 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 grown | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 grown | aux:pass |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 grown | advmod |
| 8 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 assured | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 grown | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 grown | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 grown | punct |
| 12 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 assured | nsubj |
| 13 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 assured | iobj |
| 15 | confidently | confidently | ADV | _ | 13 assured | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 size | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 size | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 size | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 size | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 size | cop |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 size | advmod |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 size | nmod:poss |
| 23 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 assured | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 assured | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 assured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grow up in a quote | present · passive | Peter | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | assure | past | Wendy | person | confidently property | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Peter | my size | tree rules |
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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