Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 91
“Now,” said he, “shall I give you a kiss?” and she replied with a slight primness, “If you please.”
Who acts: Peter, kiss · What happens: say, give, reply · To what, where: kiss, you · 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, 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | nsubj |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 kiss | det |
| 14 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 replied | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 replied | nsubj |
| 19 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 primness | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 primness | det |
| 22 | slight | slight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 primness | amod |
| 23 | primness | primness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 replied | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 please | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 please | punct |
| 26 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 please | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 please | nsubj |
| 28 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 19 replied | discourse |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Peter | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | shall | Peter | a kiss | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient kiss=Theme | |||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | kiss | with a slight primness | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with primness=Eventuality |
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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