Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 86
“I wonder,” Mr. Darling said thoughtfully, “I wonder.”
Who acts: Darling · What happens: wonder, say · 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 (Darling), 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 | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wonder | nsubj |
| 3 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 6 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Darling | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wonder | parataxis |
| 9 | thoughtfully | thoughtfully | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wonder | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 wonder | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 wonder | nsubj |
| 13 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present | Darling Mr. = darling | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Darling Mr. | thoughtfully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present | Darling Mr. = darling | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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