Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 197
Those were her precise words, so there can be no denying that it was she who first tempted him.
Who acts: Those, lot, Wendy · What happens: be, deny, tempt · To what, where: precise words, Wendy, Peter
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 (Those, lot, 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 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 words | cop |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 words | nmod:poss |
| 4 | precise | precise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 be | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 be | advmod |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 be | expl |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 be | aux |
| 10 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 words | conj |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 denying | det |
| 12 | denying | deny | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 be | advcl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 tempted | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 she | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 she | cop |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tempted | nsubj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 tempted | nsubj |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 tempted | advmod |
| 19 | tempted | tempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 denying | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tempted | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 words | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Those | Wendy's precise words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | can | can | Those not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | deny | gerund | Those not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | lot | Wendy | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tempt | past | Wendy | Peter | first property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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