Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 105
“I’ll bring it,” and she was off before he could stop her.
Who acts: father · What happens: bring off, stop · To what, where: Liza, Wendy
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 (father), 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 | _ | 4 bring | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’ll | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | 'll | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 off | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 off | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 off | cop |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 bring | compound:prt |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 stop | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stop | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 stop | aux |
| 15 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bring | advcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stop | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring off in a quote | past | Liza | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stop | could | father | Wendy | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector she=Eventuality |
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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