Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 113

“Father first,” said Michael, who was of a suspicious nature.

Who acts: Father, Michael · What happens: say, be · 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 (Father, Michael), 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	_	2 Father	punct
2	Father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 Father	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Father	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Father	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 nature	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 nature	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 nature	cop
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 nature	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 nature	det
13	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 nature	amod
14	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Michael	appos
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Father						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Michael					of a suspicious nature	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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