Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 117
He asked if there were many pirates on the island just now, and Peter said he had never known so many.
Who acts: tree, many pirates, Peter · What happens: ask, be, say, not know · To what, where: Peter · 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 (tree, many pirates, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 were | mark |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 were | expl |
| 5 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pirates | amod |
| 7 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 were | nsubj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 island | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 island | det |
| 10 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pirates | nmod |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 now | advmod |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 island | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 15 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 known | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 known | aux |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 known | advmod |
| 20 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 said | ccomp |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 many | advmod |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 known | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | tree | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | many pirates on the island | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not know | past · perfect · passive | Peter | 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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