Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 260

She tied the unhappy dog up again, but do you think Nana ceased to bark?

Who acts: Nana, you · What happens: tie, think, cease, bark · To what, where: unhappy dog · 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 (Nana, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
4	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dog	amod
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obj
6	up	up	ADV	_	2 tied	advmod
7	again	again	ADV	_	2 tied	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 think	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 think	cc
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 think	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 think	nsubj
12	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tied	advcl
13	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 ceased	nsubj
14	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 think	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 bark	mark
16	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ceased	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	tie	past	Nana	the unhappy dog	again	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
2	think speech: other	present · do-support	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	cease	past	Nana			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	bark	to-infinitive	Nana not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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