Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 90
“We were still discussing it, you remember,” says Mr. Darling, “when Nana came in with Michael’s medicine.
Who acts: We, you, Darling, Nana, Michael · What happens: discuss, remember, say, come in, medicine · To what, where: shadow · 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 (We, you, Darling, Nana), 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 discussing | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 discussing | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 discussing | aux |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 discussing | advmod |
| 5 | discussing | discuss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 says | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 discussing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 remember | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 remember | nsubj |
| 9 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 discussing | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 remember | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 discussing | punct |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Darling | nmod:desc |
| 14 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 says | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 came | advmod |
| 18 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 says | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 medicine | case |
| 22 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 medicine | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Michael | case |
| 24 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discuss speech: other in a quote | past · progressive | We | shadow | still | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | remember in a quote | present | you | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Darling Mr. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come in in a quote | past | Nana | with Michael's medicine | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | medicine in a quote | Michael | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=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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