Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 263
Do you think she cared whether she was whipped so long as her charges were safe?
Who acts: you, Nana, charges · What happens: think, care, whip, be, charge · To what, where: Nana · 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, Nana, charges), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cared | nsubj |
| 5 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | ccomp |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 9 whipped | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 whipped | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 whipped | aux:pass |
| 9 | whipped | whip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cared | ccomp |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 whipped | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 safe | mark |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 charges | nmod:poss |
| 14 | charges | charge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 safe | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 safe | cop |
| 16 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 long | advcl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | care | past | Nana | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | whip | past · passive | Nana | long property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Nana's charges | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | charge | Nana | nom charge «act transitive»: poss=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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