Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 141
“You know you can’t be my fairy, Tink, because I am an gentleman and you are a lady.”
Who acts: You, sound · What happens: know, not be, be · To what, where: fairy, gentleman, lady · 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 (You, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 fairy | nsubj |
| 5 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 fairy | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 fairy | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fairy | cop |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fairy | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Tink | punct |
| 11 | Tink | Tink | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 fairy | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gentleman | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 gentleman | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 gentleman | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 gentleman | cop |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 gentleman | det |
| 17 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lady | cc |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 lady | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 lady | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 lady | det |
| 22 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gentleman | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | can | you | my fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | sound | a gentleman and a lady | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | you | a lady | 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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