Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 89

“Mark my words,” he said, “it is some nonsense Nana has been putting into their heads; just the sort of idea a dog would have.

Who acts: Peter, word, sort, my · What happens: mark, say, be, have, word, sort · To what, where: words, heads, idea · 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 (Peter, word, sort, my), 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	_	2 Mark	punct
2	Mark	mark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 words	nmod:poss
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Mark	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mark	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Mark	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 putting	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 putting	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 putting	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 putting	cop
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 Nana	det
14	nonsense	nonsense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Nana	amod
15	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 putting	nsubj
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 putting	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 putting	aux
18	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 heads	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 heads	nmod:poss
21	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 putting	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
23	just	just	ADV	_	25 sort	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sort	det
25	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 idea	case
27	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sort	nmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 dog	det
29	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mark in a quote	infinitive		my words			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	Peter				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	word		mind's heads	put property	tree rules
4	have in a quote	would	the sort of idea				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	word in a quote		my				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
6	sort in a quote			idea			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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