Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 276
“I say, how do you do it?” asked John, rubbing his knee.
Who acts: I, John · What happens: say, do, ask, rub · To what, where: conceit, John, knee · 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 (I, John), 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 | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 do | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | advcl |
| 13 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rubbing | punct |
| 15 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 asked | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 knee | nmod:poss |
| 17 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rubbing | obj |
| 18 | . | . | 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 | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present · do-support | John | conceit | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | I not said here | John | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent john=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | rub | gerund | I not said here | John's knee | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent knee=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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