Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 9
“Tinker Bell,” he called softly, after making sure that the children were asleep, “Tink, where are you?”
Who acts: Peter, children, you · What happens: call, make, be · To what, where: Tinker Bell · 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, children, you), 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 Bell | punct |
| 2 | Tinker | tinker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Bell | compound |
| 3 | Bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bell | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bell | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 called | nsubj |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 7 called | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 making | punct |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 making | mark |
| 11 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 called | advcl |
| 12 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 making | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 asleep | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 children | det |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 asleep | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 asleep | cop |
| 17 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sure | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Tink | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Tink | punct |
| 20 | Tink | Tink | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 where | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 Tink | nmod |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 where | cop |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 where | nsubj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 where | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Tink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: ask | past | Peter | Tinker Bell | softly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | make | gerund | Peter not said here | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the children | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | where property | tree rules |
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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