Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 221
“Wendy,” he said, the sly one, “you could tuck us in at night.”
Who acts: Wendy, you · What happens: say, tuck in · To what, where: us · 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, you), 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 | _ | 2 Wendy | punct |
| 2 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wendy | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wendy | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 9 | sly | sly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tuck | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 tuck | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 tuck | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 tuck | aux |
| 15 | tuck | tuck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 tuck | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tuck | compound:prt |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 night | case |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tuck | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 tuck | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 tuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Wendy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tuck in in a quote | could | you | us | night | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent we=Destination |
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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