Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 68
Oh dear no! begs to be excused!”
What happens: beg, excuse
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: 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 2 dear | discourse |
| 2 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 begs | advcl |
| 3 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 begs | discourse |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 no | punct |
| 5 | begs | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 excused | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 excused | aux:pass |
| 8 | excused | excuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 begs | xcomp |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 begs | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 begs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | present | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | excuse not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP» |
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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