Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 163
“She thinks we have lost the way,” he replied stiffly, “and she is rather frightened.
Who acts: three, we, Peter · What happens: think, lose, reply, be · To what, where: way · 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 (three, we, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinks | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thinks | nsubj |
| 3 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 lost | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lost | aux |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 thinks | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lost | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinks | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinks | parataxis |
| 13 | stiffly | stiffly | ADV | _ | 12 replied | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 frightened | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 frightened | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 frightened | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 frightened | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 frightened | cop |
| 19 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 20 frightened | advmod |
| 20 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 replied | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | three | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | present · perfect | we | the way | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Peter | stiffly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | three | frightened property | 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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