Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 169
“In vain, in vain,” he cried; “the proper place for you is the yard, and there you go to be tied up this instant.”
Who acts: George, proper place, you · What happens: cry, be, go, tie up · To what, where: yard, instant · 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, proper place, you), 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 vain | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 vain | case |
| 3 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 vain | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 vain | case |
| 6 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 vain | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 vain | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 vain | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 vain | parataxis |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 yard | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 place | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 14 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 place | amod |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 yard | nsubj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 place | nmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 yard | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 yard | det |
| 20 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 go | cc |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 go | advmod |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 go | nsubj |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 vain | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 tied | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 tied | aux:pass |
| 28 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 go | advcl |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 tied | compound:prt |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 instant | det |
| 31 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tied | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 vain | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 vain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | George | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the proper place for you | the yard | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | you | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tie up in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | this instant | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: instant=Patient |
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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