Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 155
“Much good,” he said bitterly, “my wearing myself to the bone trying to be funny in this house.”
Who acts: George · What happens: say, wear, try, be · To what, where: George, house · 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 (George), 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 | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 2 | Much | much | ADV | _ | 3 good | advmod |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 good | parataxis |
| 8 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wearing | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 wearing | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wearing | nsubj |
| 12 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 13 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 wearing | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 bone | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bone | det |
| 16 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wearing | obl |
| 17 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 wearing | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 funny | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 funny | cop |
| 20 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 trying | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 house | det |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 funny | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | George | bitterly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wear in a quote | gerund | George | George | to the bone | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent myself=Source | |||
| 3 | try in a quote | gerund | George not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | George not said here | this house | funny property | 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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