Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 171

“She can’t sleep except when she’s sleepy.

Who acts: Wendy · What happens: not sleep, be

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), 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	_	5 sleep	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sleep	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sleep	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sleep	advmod
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	except	except	ADP	_	10 sleepy	mark
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 sleepy	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sleepy	nsubj
9	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sleepy	cop
10	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sleep	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep in a quote	can	Wendy						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	Wendy					sleepy 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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