Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 88
She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.
Who acts: woman, Peter · What happens: say, give, like, not know, mean, hold out · To what, where: kiss, Peter, hand · 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 (woman, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 kiss | det |
| 9 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 liked | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 liked | nsubj |
| 12 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 know | cc |
| 15 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 know | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 know | advmod |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 give | conj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 know | obj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 meant | nsubj |
| 21 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 held | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 held | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 held | nsubj |
| 25 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 held | compound:prt |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hand | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 held | obj |
| 29 | expectantly | expectantly | ADV | _ | 25 held | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give | would | woman | a kiss | Peter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kiss=Theme | |||
| 3 | like a condition, not said to happen | past | Peter | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | not know | past · do-support | Peter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | mean | past | woman | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | hold out | past | Peter | Peter's hand | expectantly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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