Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 89
“It is nobody I know,” he said, examining it carefully, “but it does look a scoundrel.”
Who acts: shadow, Mr. · What happens: be, know, say, examine, look · To what, where: nobody, shadow, scoundrel · 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 (shadow, Mr.), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 nobody | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nobody | cop |
| 4 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nobody | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 nobody | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 examining | punct |
| 12 | examining | examine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 examining | obj |
| 14 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 12 examining | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 look | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 look | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 look | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 look | nsubj |
| 19 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 look | aux |
| 20 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 examining | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 scoundrel | det |
| 22 | scoundrel | scoundrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 look | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | shadow | nobody | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | Mr. | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Mr. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | examine | gerund | Mr. not said here | shadow | carefully property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | look in a quote | present · do-support | shadow | a scoundrel | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme scoundrel=Attribute |
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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