Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 172
“If you wish to,” said Wendy, keeping her head erect this time.
Who acts: you, Wendy · What happens: wish, say, keep · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 wish | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 wish | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 keeping | punct |
| 11 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 erect | compound |
| 14 | erect | erect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 keeping | xcomp |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keeping | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Wendy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keep | gerund | Wendy not said here | time | erect property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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