Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 166
“Oh dear,” said the nice Wendy, “I don’t mean a kiss, I mean a thimble.”
Who acts: nice Wendy · What happens: say, not mean, mean · To what, where: kiss, thimble · 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 (nice Wendy), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Oh | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Wendy | det |
| 8 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Wendy | amod |
| 9 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mean | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 mean | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 mean | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 mean | aux |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 mean | advmod |
| 15 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 kiss | det |
| 17 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mean | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mean | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 mean | nsubj |
| 20 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 mean | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 thimble | det |
| 22 | thimble | thimble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mean | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the nice Wendy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not mean in a quote | present · do-support | the nice Wendy = wendy | a kiss | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean in a quote | present | the nice Wendy = wendy | a thimble | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thimble=Topic |
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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