Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 78
“They were rather sweet, don’t you think, George?”
Who acts: children, you · What happens: be, not do, think
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 (children, 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 | _ | 5 sweet | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sweet | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sweet | cop |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 sweet | advmod |
| 5 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 think | advcl |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 do | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 think | nsubj |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sweet | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 George | punct |
| 12 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sweet | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sweet | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sweet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | children = child | George obl; sweet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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