Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 78

“A little!” she replied with hauteur; “if I am no use I can at least withdraw,” and she sprang in the most dignified way into bed and covered her face with the blankets.

Who acts: Wendy · What happens: reply, be, withdraw, spring, cover · To what, where: little, use, least, dignified way, face · 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	_	7 replied	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 little	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 replied	obl:unmarked
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 little	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 little	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 replied	nsubj
7	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 hauteur	case
9	hauteur	hauteur	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replied	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 use	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 use	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 use	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 use	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 use	cop
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 use	det
16	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replied	ccomp
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 withdraw	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 withdraw	aux
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 least	case
20	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 withdraw	obl
21	withdraw	withdraw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 use	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 use	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 replied	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sprang	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sprang	nsubj
26	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 replied	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	31 way	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 way	det
29	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	30 dignified	advmod
30	dignified	dignified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 way	amod
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sprang	obl
32	into	into	ADP	_	33 bed	case
33	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sprang	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 covered	cc
35	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sprang	conj
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 face	nmod:poss
37	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 covered	obj
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 blankets	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 blankets	det
40	blankets	blanket	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 covered	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Wendy	a little		with hauteur	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with hauteur=Eventuality
2	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Wendy	no use			tree rules
3	withdraw in a quote	can	Wendy	no use not said here	least		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Theme
4	spring	past	Wendy		the dignified way	into bed	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bed=Destination
5	cover	past	Wendy not said here	Wendy's face		with the blankets	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with blanket=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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