Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 15

Tink said that the shadow was in the big box.

Who acts: Tink, shadow · What happens: say, be · To what, where: big box · 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, shadow), 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	Tink	Tink	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 box	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shadow	det
5	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 box	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 box	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 box	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 box	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 box	amod
10	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Tink						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the shadow			the big box			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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