Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 95

It was not really a happy question to ask him; it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

Who acts: face, examination paper, you, grammar · What happens: not be, ask, be, want · To what, where: happy question, Peter, grammar, Kings

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 (face, examination paper, you, grammar), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 question	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 question	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 question	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	7 question	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 question	det
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 question	amod
7	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 ask	mark
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 question	acl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ask	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 paper	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 paper	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 paper	cop
14	like	like	ADP	_	17 paper	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 paper	det
16	examination	examination	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 paper	compound
17	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 question	appos
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 asks	nsubj
19	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 paper	acl:relcl
20	grammar	grammar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 asks	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Kings	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 Kings	advmod
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 Kings	nsubj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 want	nsubj
25	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 what	acl:relcl
26	to	to	PART	_	28 asked	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 asked	aux:pass
28	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 want	xcomp
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 Kings	cop
30	Kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 grammar	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 England	case
32	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Kings	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 question	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	face	a happy question			tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive			Peter		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is	past	face			like a examination paper	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	present	a examination paper	grammar and Kings			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grammar=Recipient
5	want	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»
7	is a	present	grammar and Kings	Kings		of England	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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