Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 48
“Boy or girl?” asked Michael, not too hopefully.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: ask · To what, where: Michael
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 (Boy), 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 | _ | 2 Boy | punct |
| 2 | Boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 girl | cc |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Boy | conj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boy | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boy | punct |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hopefully | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 hopefully | advmod |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 hopefully | advmod |
| 12 | hopefully | hopefully | ADV | _ | 7 asked | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Boy or girl | Michael | hopefully property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent michael=Recipient |
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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