Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 278
“You just think lovely wonderful thoughts,” Peter explained, “and they lift you up in the air.”
Who acts: You, Peter, thoughts · What happens: think, explain, lift up · To what, where: lovely wonderful thoughts, you, air · 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, thoughts), 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 | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 think | advmod |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thoughts | amod |
| 6 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thoughts | amod |
| 7 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 think | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 10 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 explained | nsubj |
| 11 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lift | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 lift | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lift | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lift | nsubj |
| 16 | lift | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 explained | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 lift | obj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 lift | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 air | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 air | det |
| 21 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lift | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | You | lovely wonderful thoughts | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent thought=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | past | Peter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lift up in a quote | present | thoughts = thought | you | the air | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme in air=Destination |
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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