Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 173
“Seems to me,” growled John, “these are the only two things worth doing.”
Who acts: these · What happens: seem, growl, be, do · To what, where: Wendy, John, only two things
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 (these), 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 | _ | 2 Seems | punct |
| 2 | Seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 growled | advcl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Seems | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Seems | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Seems | punct |
| 7 | growled | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 growled | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 things | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 things | punct |
| 11 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 things | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 things | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 things | det |
| 14 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 things | amod |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 things | nummod |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 John | appos |
| 17 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 things | amod |
| 18 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 worth | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 John | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 growled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem in a quote | present | Wendy | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | growl | past | John | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent john=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | these | the only two things | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | gerund | these not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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