Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 159
“I think,” she said, “it is perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls; John there just despises us.”
Who acts: girl, fun, you, John · What happens: think, say, be, talk, despise · To what, where: way, us · 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 (girl, fun, you, John), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lovely | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 lovely | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lovely | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lovely | cop |
| 12 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 13 lovely | advmod |
| 13 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lovely | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 talk | nsubj |
| 17 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 way | acl:relcl |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 girls | case |
| 19 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 talk | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 despises | punct |
| 21 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 despises | nsubj |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 John | advmod |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 despises | advmod |
| 24 | despises | despise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | parataxis |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 despises | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | girl | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | fun | the way obl:unmarked; lovely, perfectly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | talk in a quote | present | you | the way not said here | about girls | tree rules | |||
| 5 | despise in a quote | present | John | us | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus |
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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