Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 155
“She tells me,” he said, “that the pirates sighted us before the darkness came, and got Long Tom out.”
Who acts: Wendy, Peter, pirates, darkness · What happens: tell, say, sight, come, get out · To what, where: Peter, us, Long Tom · 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 (Wendy, Peter, pirates, darkness), 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 tells | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tells | nsubj |
| 3 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tells | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sighted | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 sighted | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 sighted | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pirates | det |
| 13 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sighted | nsubj |
| 14 | sighted | sight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sighted | obj |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 19 came | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 darkness | det |
| 18 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sighted | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 got | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 got | cc |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 23 | Long | Long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Tom | amod |
| 24 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 got | obj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 got | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 got | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | Wendy | Peter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sight in a quote | past | the pirates | us | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | past | the darkness | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get out in a quote | past | Peter not said here | Long Tom | 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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