Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 230
“If you like,” he said indifferently, and she ran to John and Michael and shook them.
Who acts: you, Peter, Michael · What happens: like, say, run, shake · To what, where: John, clothes · 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, Michael), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 like | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | indifferently | indifferently | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ran | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ran | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ran | nsubj |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 John | case |
| 15 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ran | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Michael | cc |
| 17 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 John | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 shook | cc |
| 19 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ran | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 shook | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | indifferently property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | run | past | Michael | John and Michael | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to john=Result | ||||
| 4 | shake | past | Michael not said here | clothes | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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