Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 111
“You have been wonderfully quick,” her father retorted, with a vindictive politeness that was quite thrown away upon her.
Who acts: You, father · What happens: be, retort, throw away · To what, where: vindictive politeness · 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 (You, 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 | _ | 6 quick | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 quick | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 quick | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 quick | cop |
| 5 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 6 quick | advmod |
| 6 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 quick | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 quick | punct |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 retorted | nsubj |
| 11 | retorted | retort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 quick | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 politeness | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 politeness | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 politeness | det |
| 15 | vindictive | vindictive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 politeness | amod |
| 16 | politeness | politeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 retorted | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 thrown | aux:pass |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 thrown | advmod |
| 20 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 politeness | acl:relcl |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 thrown | advmod |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thrown | obl |
| 24 | . | . | 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 | You | quick, wonderfully property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | retort speech: other | past | Wendy's father | with a vindictive politeness | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | throw away | past · passive | a vindictive politeness | upon Wendy; away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme upon she=Destination |
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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