Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 202

Of course she was very pleased to be asked, but she said, “Oh dear, I can’t.

Who acts: Wendy · What happens: be, ask, say · 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 (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	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	6 pleased	advmod
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pleased	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pleased	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 pleased	advmod
6	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 asked	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	aux:pass
9	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 pleased	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pleased	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dear	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 dear	punct
16	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	17 dear	discourse
17	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ca	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 ca	nsubj
20	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pleased	aux
21	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 ca	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	can · past	Wendy	pleased property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive · passive	Wendy not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»
3	say speech: assert	past	Wendy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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