Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 113
“No. You see children know such a lot now, they soon don’t believe in fairies, and every time a child says, ‘I don’t believe in fairies,’ there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.”
Who acts: You, children, child, fairy · What happens: see, know, not believe, say, be, fall down · To what, where: lot · 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 (You, children, child, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 4 see | compound |
| 3 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 is | advcl |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | ccomp |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 lot | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lot | det |
| 9 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | obj |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 know | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 believe | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 believe | nsubj |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 believe | advmod |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 believe | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 believe | advmod |
| 16 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 see | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 fairies | case |
| 18 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 believe | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 says | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 says | cc |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 says | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 child | det |
| 24 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 says | nsubj |
| 25 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 believe | punct |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 believe | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 believe | nsubj |
| 29 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 believe | aux |
| 30 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 believe | advmod |
| 31 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 says | ccomp |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 fairies | case |
| 33 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 believe | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 36 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 37 is | expl |
| 37 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 fairy | det |
| 39 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 falls | nsubj |
| 40 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 42 falls | advmod |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 falls | nsubj |
| 42 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 is | ccomp |
| 43 | down | down | ADP | _ | 42 falls | compound:prt |
| 44 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 falls | xcomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 is | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | children | such lot | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | not believe in a quote | present · do-support | children = child | in fairies; soon property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | a child | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not believe in a quote | present · do-support | a child = child | in fairies | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | be in a quote | present | there | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | fall down in a quote | present | a fairy | dead, somewhere property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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