Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 25
“My fatal gift of humour, dearest.”
Who acts: My · What happens: gift · To what, where: humour
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 (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 | _ | 8 dearest | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 gift | nmod:poss |
| 3 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gift | amod |
| 4 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dearest | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 humour | case |
| 6 | humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gift | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dearest | punct |
| 8 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dearest | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 dearest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gift in a quote | My | humour | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=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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