Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 23

“If only I had pretended to like the medicine,” was what Nana’s wet eyes said.

Who acts: wet eyes · What happens: pretend, like, be, say · To what, where: medicine · 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 (wet eyes), 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	_	14 what	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 pretended	mark
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 pretended	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 pretended	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pretended	aux
6	pretended	pretend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 what	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 like	mark
8	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pretended	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 medicine	det
10	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 like	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pretended	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 pretended	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 what	cop
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
15	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ’s	nsubj
16	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 what	acl:relcl
17	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 eyes	amod
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ’s	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pretend a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	wet eyes = eye		tree rules
2	like in a quote	to-infinitive	wet eyes = eye not said here	the medicine	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot medicine=Theme
3	is a	past			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	wet eyes		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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