Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 148
“Nana, good dog,” he said, patting her, “I have put a little milk into your bowl, Nana.”
Who acts: Nana · What happens: say, pat, put · To what, where: Nana, little milk, bowl · 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 (Nana), 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 Nana | punct |
| 2 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dog | punct |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dog | amod |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Nana | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dog | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nana | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 patting | punct |
| 11 | patting | pat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 patting | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 put | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 put | aux |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 milk | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 milk | amod |
| 20 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 bowl | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 bowl | nmod:poss |
| 23 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Nana | punct |
| 25 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 bowl | appos |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Nana | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pat | gerund | Nana not said here | Nana | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | put in a quote | present · perfect | Nana | a little milk | your bowl | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent milk=Goal |
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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