Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 90
“I shall know when you give it to me,” he replied stiffly, and not to hurt his feeling she gave him a thimble.
Who acts: Peter, you, kiss · What happens: know, give, reply, not hurt · To what, where: hand, Peter, feeling, thimble · 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, you, kiss), 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 | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 give | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 give | nsubj |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 give | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 replied | nsubj |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | stiffly | stiffly | ADV | _ | 14 replied | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hurt | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hurt | cc |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 hurt | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 hurt | mark |
| 20 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 replied | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 feeling | nmod:poss |
| 22 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hurt | obj |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gave | nsubj |
| 24 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 feeling | acl:relcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gave | iobj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 thimble | det |
| 27 | thimble | thimble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | shall | Peter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | present | you | hand | Peter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient | |||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Peter | stiffly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not hurt | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | Peter's feeling | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feeling=Patient | ||||
| 5 | give | past | kiss | a thimble | Peter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thimble=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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