Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 189
O Wendy, your mother was telling you such a lovely story.”
Who acts: mother · What happens: tell · To what, where: lovely story, you · 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 (mother), 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 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 2 Wendy | case |
| 2 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 telling | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wendy | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 telling | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 telling | aux |
| 7 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 telling | iobj |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 story | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 story | det |
| 11 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 story | amod |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 telling | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 telling | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 telling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · progressive | your mother | such lovely story | you | of Wendy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=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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