Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 22
“If only I had not poured my medicine into Nana’s bowl,” said Mr. Darling.
Who acts: Darling, my · What happens: not pour, say, medicine · To what, where: medicine, 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 (Darling, my), 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 | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 poured | mark |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 poured | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 poured | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 poured | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 poured | advmod |
| 7 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 said | advcl |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 medicine | nmod:poss |
| 9 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 poured | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 bowl | case |
| 11 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 bowl | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Nana | case |
| 13 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 poured | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 poured | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 poured | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Darling | nmod:desc |
| 18 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pour a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect | Darling Mr. = darling | my medicine | Nana's bowl | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme into bowl=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Darling Mr. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | medicine in a quote | my | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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