Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 111
I would wake him first, and then kill him.
Who acts: I · What happens: wake, kill · To what, where: Peter
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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:659): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wake | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 wake | aux |
| 3 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wake | obj |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 wake | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kill | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 kill | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 kill | advmod |
| 9 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wake | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kill | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | would | I | Peter | first property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 2 | kill | infinitive | I not said here | Peter | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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