Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 63
“This tie, it will not tie.”
Who acts: tie · What happens: not tie
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 (tie), 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 tie | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 tie | det |
| 3 | tie | tie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tie | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tie | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tie | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 tie | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 tie | advmod |
| 8 | tie | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tie | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 tie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tie in a quote | future | this tie | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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