Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 129
“Of course I’m very sorry, but how could I know you were in the drawer?”
Who acts: Peter, you · What happens: be, know · To what, where: 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 (Peter, you), 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 | _ | 7 sorry | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 7 sorry | advmod |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 sorry | nsubj |
| 5 | ’m | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sorry | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 sorry | advmod |
| 7 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 know | cc |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 know | advmod |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sorry | parataxis |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 drawer | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 drawer | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 drawer | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 drawer | det |
| 18 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 know | ccomp |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 sorry | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Peter | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | could | Peter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | you | the drawer | tree rules |
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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