Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 52
“I was crying because I can’t get my shadow to stick on.
Who acts: Peter, my · What happens: cry, not get, stick on, shadow · To what, where: shadow
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 (Peter, my), 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 crying | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 crying | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crying | aux |
| 4 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 get | nsubj |
| 7 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | aux |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 get | advmod |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 crying | ccomp |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 stick | mark |
| 13 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 get | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 stick | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past · progressive | Peter | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not get in a quote | can | Peter | my shadow | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stick on in a quote | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | shadow in a quote | my | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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