Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 77
“You did a little,” Peter said carelessly, and continued to dance.
Who acts: You, Peter · What happens: do, say, continue, dance · To what, where: little · 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 (You, 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 | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 little | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 8 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | carelessly | carelessly | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 continued | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 continued | cc |
| 13 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 dance | mark |
| 15 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 continued | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past | You | a little | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | carelessly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | continue | past | Peter not said here | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | dance | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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