Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 110
“I have been as quick as I could,” she panted.
Who acts: father, Wendy · What happens: be, pant
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, 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 | _ | 6 quick | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 quick | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 quick | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 quick | cop |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 quick | advmod |
| 6 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 could | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 could | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 quick | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 could | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 could | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 panted | nsubj |
| 13 | panted | pant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 could | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present · perfect | father | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pant | past | Wendy | 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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