Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 166
“Then tell her,” Wendy begged, “to put out her light.”
Who acts: you, Wendy, three · What happens: tell, beg, put out, light · To what, where: three, light · 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 (you, Wendy, three), 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 tell | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 tell | advmod |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 7 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 begged | nsubj |
| 8 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 put | mark |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 begged | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 put | compound:prt |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 light | nmod:poss |
| 15 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | three | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Wendy | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | put out in a quote | to-infinitive | Wendy not said here | three's light | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent light=Goal | ||||
| 4 | light in a quote | three | 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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