Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 30
She was already sure that he must be Peter, but it did seem a comparatively short name.
Who acts: Moira, Peter, it · What happens: be, seem · To what, where: short name
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 (Moira, Peter, it), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 sure | advmod |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 be | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 be | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 be | aux |
| 8 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 9 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 be | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seem | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 seem | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seem | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seem | aux |
| 14 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 name | det |
| 16 | comparatively | comparatively | ADV | _ | 17 short | advmod |
| 17 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 name | amod |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seem | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Moira | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | must | Peter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | seem | past · do-support | it | a short name | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme name=Attribute |
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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