Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 143
“She is quite a common fairy,” Peter explained apologetically, “she is called Tinker Bell because she mends the pots and kettles.”
Who acts: Tink, Peter · What happens: be, explain, call, mend · To what, where: common fairy, Tink, pots · 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, Peter), 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 fairy | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fairy | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fairy | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 fairy | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fairy | det |
| 6 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fairy | amod |
| 7 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 explained | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fairy | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fairy | punct |
| 10 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 explained | nsubj |
| 11 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | apologetically | apologetically | ADV | _ | 11 explained | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 called | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 called | aux:pass |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 explained | conj |
| 18 | Tinker | Tinker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Bell | compound |
| 19 | Bell | Bell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 called | xcomp |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 mends | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 mends | nsubj |
| 22 | mends | mend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 called | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 pots | det |
| 24 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 mends | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 kettles | cc |
| 26 | kettles | kettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 pots | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 explained | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Tink | quite common fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | past | Peter | apologetically property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call in a quote | present · passive | Tink | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | mend in a quote | present | Tink | the pots and kettles | 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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