Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 154
“Yes,” said cunning Peter, “but we are rather lonely.
Who acts: we · What happens: say, cunn, be · To what, where: Peter · 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 (we), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | cunning | cunn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 said | xcomp |
| 7 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cunning | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lonely | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 lonely | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 lonely | cc |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 lonely | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lonely | cop |
| 13 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 14 lonely | advmod |
| 14 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Peter | amod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | cunn | gerund | Peter | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | we | lonely property | 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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