Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 187
“Do you know,” Peter asked “why swallows build in the eaves of houses?
Who acts: you, Peter, swallows · What happens: know, ask, build · 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, Peter, swallows), 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 | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 7 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 build | punct |
| 10 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 build | advmod |
| 11 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 build | nsubj |
| 12 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 eaves | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 eaves | det |
| 15 | eaves | eave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 build | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 houses | case |
| 17 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 eaves | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Peter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | build in a quote | present | swallows | in the eaves of houses | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in eave=Attribute |
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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