Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 145
I shall pour my medicine into Nana’s bowl, and she will drink it, thinking it is milk!”
Who acts: I, Nana, my · What happens: pour, drink, think, be, medicine · To what, where: medicine, bowl, thinking milk
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 (I, Nana, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 pour | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 pour | aux |
| 3 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 medicine | nmod:poss |
| 5 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pour | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 bowl | case |
| 7 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bowl | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Nana | case |
| 9 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pour | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drink | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drink | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drink | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 drink | aux |
| 14 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pour | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drink | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thinking | punct |
| 17 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 milk | amod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thinking | obj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 milk | cop |
| 20 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drink | obj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 pour | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | shall | I | my medicine | Nana's bowl | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme into bowl=Destination | |||
| 2 | drink | future | Nana | medicine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | medicine | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | thinking milk | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | medicine | my | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=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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