Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 42
“I mean,” Wendy said nicely, remembering that she was hostess, “is that what they put on the letters?”
Who acts: Wendy, remembering, sobs · What happens: mean, say, remember, be, put · To what, where: hostess, letters · 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 (Wendy, remembering, sobs), 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 mean | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 6 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 remembering | punct |
| 10 | remembering | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 what | csubj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 hostess | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hostess | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hostess | cop |
| 14 | hostess | hostess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remembering | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hostess | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 what | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | cop |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 what | mark |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 said | ccomp |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | nsubj |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 letters | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 letters | det |
| 24 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 put | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present | Wendy | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Wendy | nicely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | remember | gerund | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | Wendy | hostess | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | remembering | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | put in a quote | past | sobs = sob | the letters | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on letter=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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