Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 98
“It is so naughty of him not to wipe his feet,” Wendy said, sighing.
Who acts: leaf, Wendy · What happens: be, not wipe, say, sigh · To what, where: feet · 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 (leaf, Wendy), 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 naughty | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 naughty | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 naughty | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 naughty | advmod |
| 5 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 naughty | obl |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 wipe | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 wipe | mark |
| 10 | wipe | wipe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 naughty | parataxis |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wipe | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 naughty | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 naughty | punct |
| 15 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sighing | punct |
| 18 | sighing | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 said | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | leaf | of Peter; naughty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not wipe in a quote | to-infinitive | Peter's feet | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent foot=Source | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Wendy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sigh | gerund | Wendy not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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