Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 140
He tried to argue with Tink.
Who acts: sound · What happens: try, argue
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 (sound), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 argue | mark |
| 4 | argue | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 Tink | case |
| 6 | Tink | Tink | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 argue | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | sound | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree not said to happen | to-infinitive | sound not said here | with Tink | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with tink=Co-Agent |
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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