Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 134
“Tink,” said Peter amiably, “this lady says she wishes you were her fairy.”
Who acts: Tink, lady, you · What happens: say, wish, be · To what, where: fairy · 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 (Tink, lady, 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 | _ | 2 Tink | punct |
| 2 | Tink | Tink | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tink | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tink | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | amiably | amiably | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 lady | det |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 says | nsubj |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wishes | nsubj |
| 14 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 says | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 fairy | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fairy | cop |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 fairy | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wishes | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Tink | amiably property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | this lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | present | Tink | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | you | Tink's fairy | 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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