Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 104
“There’s a pirate asleep in the pampas just beneath us,” Peter told him.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: tell · To what, where: Michael · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 ’s | expl |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 told | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pirate | det |
| 5 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’s | obj |
| 6 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pirate | amod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pampas | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pampas | det |
| 9 | pampas | pampa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 asleep | obl |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 us | advmod |
| 11 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 12 us | case |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’s | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 us | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
| 15 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 told | nsubj |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Peter | Michael | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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