Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 170
“George, George,” Mrs. Darling whispered, “remember what I told you about that boy.”
Who acts: George · What happens: whisper, remember, tell · To what, where: you · 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 | _ | 2 George | punct |
| 2 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 whispered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 George | punct |
| 4 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 George | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 George | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 George | punct |
| 7 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 George | flat |
| 8 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 George | flat |
| 9 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remember | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 remember | punct |
| 12 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 whispered | ccomp |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 told | obj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 told | nsubj |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 remember | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 told | iobj |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 boy | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 boy | det |
| 19 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 remember | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | George | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | remember in a quote | infinitive | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | George | you | about that boy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic |
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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