Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 158
And of course they must see her light, and if they guess we are near it they are sure to let fly.”
Who acts: arrows, we, it, Wendy · What happens: see, guess, be, let, fly, light · To what, where: light, it · 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 (arrows, we, it, Wendy), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 see | cc |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 course | case |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 light | nmod:poss |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 guess | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 guess | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 guess | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 guess | nsubj |
| 13 | guess | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | conj |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 it | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 it | cop |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sure | nsubj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sure | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sure | cop |
| 20 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 guess | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 let | mark |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sure | xcomp |
| 23 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 let | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | must | arrows = arrow | Wendy's light | of course | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | guess a condition, not said to happen | present | arrows = arrow | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | we | it | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | it | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | let | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | fly | infinitive | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | light | Wendy | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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