Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 139
She says you are a great ugly girl, and that she is my fairy.”
Who acts: Bell, you · What happens: say, be · To what, where: great ugly girl, 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 (Bell, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 girl | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 girl | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 7 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fairy | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fairy | cc |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 fairy | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fairy | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fairy | cop |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fairy | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 girl | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 fairy | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Bell | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | you | a great ugly girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Bell | my 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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