Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 100
He really thought this was true, and Wendy, who was now in her night-gown, believed it also, and she said, to encourage Michael, “That medicine you sometimes take, father, is much nastier, isn’t it?”
Who acts: Michael, this, Wendy, you, medicine · What happens: think, be, believe, say, encourage, take · To what, where: night gown, gown, Michael, medicine · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael, this, Wendy, you), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 true | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 true | cop |
| 6 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 believed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 believed | cc |
| 9 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 believed | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gown | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 gown | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gown | cop |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 gown | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 gown | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 gown | nmod:poss |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gown | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 night | punct |
| 18 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Wendy | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Wendy | punct |
| 20 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 believed | obj |
| 22 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 believed | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 encourage | punct |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 encourage | mark |
| 29 | encourage | encourage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 said | ccomp |
| 30 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 encourage | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 nastier | punct |
| 32 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 nastier | punct |
| 33 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 medicine | det |
| 34 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 nastier | nsubj |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 take | nsubj |
| 36 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 37 take | advmod |
| 37 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 medicine | acl:relcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 father | punct |
| 39 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 medicine | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 medicine | punct |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 nastier | cop |
| 42 | much | much | ADV | _ | 43 nastier | advmod |
| 43 | nastier | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 encourage | parataxis |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 n’t | punct |
| 45 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 n’t | cop |
| 46 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 nastier | conj |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 n’t | nsubj |
| 48 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 43 nastier | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 encourage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Michael | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | this | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Wendy | Wendy's night gown | now | tree rules | |||
| 4 | believe | past | Wendy | gown | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Wendy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | encourage | to-infinitive | Michael | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent michael=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | take in a quote | present | you | that medicine and father not said here | sometimes property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme | |||
| 8 | is in a quote | present | that medicine and father | nasty property | 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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