Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 47
“I do,” she said, “I so want a third child.”
Who acts: lady · What happens: do, say, want · To what, where: third child · 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 (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 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 want | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 want | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 want | nsubj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 want | advmod |
| 12 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 child | det |
| 14 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 child | amod |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 want | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | lady | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | lady | a third child | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot child=Theme |
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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