Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 67
“Oh, I shan’t cry,” said Peter, who was already of the opinion that he had never cried in his life.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: not cry, say, be · To what, where: life · 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 (Peter), 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 | _ | 7 cry | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 cry | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 cry | nsubj |
| 5 | sha | sha | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 cry | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 cry | advmod |
| 7 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cry | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cry | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 opinion | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 opinion | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 opinion | cop |
| 15 | already | already | ADV | _ | 18 opinion | advmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 opinion | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 opinion | det |
| 18 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Peter | appos |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 cried | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 cried | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 cried | aux |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 cried | advmod |
| 23 | cried | cry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 opinion | advcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 life | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 life | nmod:poss |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cried | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cry speech: express in a quote | Peter | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Peter | of the opinion | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not cry speech: express | past · perfect | Peter | Peter's life | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in life=Location |
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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