Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 76
“O George, do you remember Michael suddenly said to me, ‘How did you get to know me, mother?’”
Who acts: George, Michael, you · What happens: remember, say, get, know · To what, where: Mrs. · 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 (George, Michael, you), 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 | _ | 7 remember | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 George | discourse |
| 3 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 remember | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 George | punct |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 remember | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 remember | nsubj |
| 7 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 9 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 remember | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 15 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 get | advmod |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 get | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 get | nsubj |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 remember | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 know | mark |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 get | xcomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 know | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mother | punct |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | parataxis |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 remember | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 remember | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember in a quote | present · do-support | George | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Michael | Mrs. | suddenly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | |||
| 3 | get in a quote | past · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | know in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | Mrs. | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=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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