Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 97
“Mother, don’t pamper him,” he called after her.
Who acts: Michael · What happens: not pamper, call · To what, where: Michael · 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 (Michael), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:273): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 pamper | punct |
| 2 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pamper | vocative |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pamper | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 pamper | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 pamper | advmod |
| 6 | pamper | pamper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 called | ccomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pamper | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pamper | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 pamper | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 called | nsubj |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 called | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pamper in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Michael | Mother vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | past | Michael | after mother | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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