Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 109
Tedious talk this, but being a stay-at-home she liked it.
Who acts: you, stay, fairy · What happens: talk, be, like · To what, where: this, home, stay
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 (you, stay, fairy), 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 | Tedious | tedious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 talk | amod |
| 2 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 talk | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 home | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 home | cc |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 home | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 home | det |
| 8 | stay | stay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 home | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 home | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 at | punct |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talk | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 liked | nsubj |
| 14 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 home | acl:relcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 liked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | imperative | you not said here | this | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent this=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | stay | a home | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | like | past | fairy | stay | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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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