Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 101
“I don’t want ever to be a man,” he said with passion.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: not want, be, say · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 want | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 want | advmod |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 want | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 man | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 man | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 passion | case |
| 16 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want in a quote | present · do-support | Peter | ever | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | with passion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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