Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 98
“Michael, when I was your age I took medicine without a murmur.
Who acts: Michael · What happens: be, take · To what, where: age, medicine
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.
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 | _ | 2 Michael | punct |
| 2 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 age | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 age | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 age | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 age | cop |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 age | nmod:poss |
| 8 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Michael | appos |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 age | acl:relcl |
| 11 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 12 | without | without | ADP | _ | 14 murmur | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 murmur | det |
| 14 | murmur | murmur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Michael | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Michael | your age | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | past | Michael | medicine | without a murmur | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme |
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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