Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 179
“She says she will do that to you, Wendy, every time I give you a thimble.”
Who acts: Tink · What happens: say, do, give · To what, where: that, you, 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 (Tink), 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 says | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 do | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Wendy | punct |
| 11 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | nsubj |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 time | acl:relcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 thimble | det |
| 19 | thimble | thimble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Tink | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | future | Tink | that | you | Wendy obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||
| 3 | give in a quote | present | Tink | a thimble | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient thimble=Theme |
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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