Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 107
“John,” he said, shuddering, “it’s most beastly stuff.
Who acts: John · What happens: say, shudder · 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 (John), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 John | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 John | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shuddering | punct |
| 8 | shuddering | shudder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ’s | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 ’s | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ’s | nsubj |
| 12 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 shuddering | conj |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 beastly | advmod |
| 14 | beastly | beastly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stuff | amod |
| 15 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ’s | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | John | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shudder | gerund | John not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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