Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 280
“You’re so nippy at it,” John said, “couldn’t you do it very slowly once?”
Who acts: You, John · What happens: be, say, do · To what, where: nippy, 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, 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 ’re | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ’re | nsubj |
| 3 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 nippy | advmod |
| 5 | nippy | nippy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ’re | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 nippy | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
| 10 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 could | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | obj |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 slowly | advmod |
| 20 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 21 once | advmod |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 do | advmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does in a quote | present | You | nippy | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nippy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | John | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | could | you | air | once property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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