Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 114
“I shall be sick, you know,” Mr. Darling said threateningly.
Who acts: Darling, you · What happens: be, know, say · 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 (Darling, you), 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 | _ | 5 sick | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sick | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sick | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sick | cop |
| 5 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sick | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sick | punct |
| 11 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Darling | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | threateningly | threateningly | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | shall | Darling Mr. = darling | sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Darling Mr. | threateningly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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