Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 81
I can’t help crowing, Wendy, when I’m pleased with myself.”
Who acts: I · What happens: not help, crow, be · To what, where: Wendy
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 help | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 help | advmod |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | crowing | crow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 help | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Wendy | punct |
| 7 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 crowing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ’m | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 ’m | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 ’m | nsubj |
| 11 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | conj |
| 12 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ’m | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 myself | case |
| 14 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 pleased | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | can | I | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | crow not said to happen | gerund | I not said here | Wendy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wendy=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be | present | I | pleased property | vn exist-47.1 «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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