Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 144

“I have just thought of a splendid joke.

Who acts: Michael · What happens: think

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 (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	_	5 thought	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 thought	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 thought	advmod
5	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 joke	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 joke	det
8	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 joke	amod
9	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	present · perfect	Michael					of a splendid joke	vn focus-87.1-1 «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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