Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 270
“I say, Peter, can you really fly?”
Who acts: John, you · What happens: say, fly · To what, where: Peter · 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 (John, 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 | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Peter | punct |
| 5 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 say | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fly | punct |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 fly | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 fly | nsubj |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 fly | advmod |
| 10 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | John | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent peter=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fly in a quote | can | you | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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