Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 116
John said “How ripping,” but decided to have tea first.
Who acts: John · What happens: say, rip, decide, have · To what, where: tea · 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 (John), 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 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ripping | punct |
| 4 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ripping | advmod |
| 5 | ripping | rip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ripping | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ripping | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 decided | cc |
| 9 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 decided | xcomp |
| 12 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 have | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | John | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | rip in a quote | gerund | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | decide | past | John not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | John not said here | tea | first property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient |
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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