Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 99

“It was because I heard father and mother,” he explained in a low voice, “talking about what I was to be when I became a man.”

Who acts: touch, Peter · What happens: be, explain, talk · To what, where: low voice, man · 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 (touch, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	cop
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 heard	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mother	cc
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 father	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 explained	nsubj
13	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 voice	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 voice	det
16	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 voice	amod
17	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 explained	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 talking	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 talking	punct
20	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 explained	ccomp
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 what	case
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 talking	obl
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 was	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 what	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	29 became	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 became	cop
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 became	advmod
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 became	nsubj
29	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 was	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 man	det
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 became	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	touch			hear property	tree rules
2	explain speech: assert	past	Peter		a low voice		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	talk in a quote	gerund					vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about what=Topic
4	is in a quote	to-infinitive	Peter	a man		become 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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