Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 60
“It must be sewn on,” she said, just a little patronisingly.
Who acts: Wendy · What happens: sew on, say · To what, where: shadow · 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), 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 | _ | 5 sewn | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sewn | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sewn | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sewn | aux:pass |
| 5 | sewn | sew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 sewn | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sewn | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sewn | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 little | punct |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 little | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 little | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | patronisingly | patronisingly | ADV | _ | 14 little | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sew on in a quote | must · passive | shadow | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Wendy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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