Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 166
But I refuse to allow that dog to lord it in my nursery for an hour longer.”
Who acts: I · What happens: refuse, not allow, lord · To what, where: dog, nursery
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 refuse | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 refuse | nsubj |
| 3 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 allow | mark |
| 5 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 refuse | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 dog | det |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 allow | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 lord | mark |
| 9 | lord | lord | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 allow | xcomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lord | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 nursery | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 nursery | nmod:poss |
| 13 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lord | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 hour | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hour | det |
| 16 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lord | obl |
| 17 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 lord | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 refuse | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 refuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | present | I | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not allow | to-infinitive | I not said here | that dog | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer dog=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | lord not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | dog | my nursery | hour | long 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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