Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 126
“Wendy,” he whispered gleefully, “I do believe I shut her up in the drawer!”
Who acts: Wendy · What happens: whisper, believe, shut up · To what, where: Wendy, drawer · 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 (Wendy), 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 Wendy | punct |
| 2 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 whispered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wendy | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wendy | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 whispered | nsubj |
| 6 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | gleefully | gleefully | ADV | _ | 6 whispered | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 believe | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 believe | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 believe | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 believe | aux |
| 12 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 whispered | ccomp |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 shut | nsubj |
| 14 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 believe | ccomp |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 shut | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 shut | compound:prt |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 drawer | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 drawer | det |
| 19 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shut | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 believe | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: express | past | Wendy | gleefully property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | believe in a quote | present · do-support | Wendy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | shut up in a quote | past | Wendy | Wendy | the drawer | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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