Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 46
“Nobody wants me,” he said, and of course the lady in the evening-dress could not stand that.
Who acts: Nobody, Michael, lady · What happens: want, say, not stand · To what, where: Michael, that · 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 (Nobody, Michael, lady), 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 wants | punct |
| 2 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wants | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stand | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stand | cc |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 course | case |
| 12 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stand | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lady | det |
| 14 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stand | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 dress | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dress | det |
| 17 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dress | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 evening | punct |
| 19 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lady | nmod |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 stand | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 stand | advmod |
| 22 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 stand | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | Nobody | Michael | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Michael | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not stand | could | the lady in the evening dress | that | of course | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
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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