Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 175
“If only one of us had a pocket,” Peter said, “we could carry her in it.”
Who acts: one, Peter, we · What happens: have, say, carry · To what, where: pocket, certainty · 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 (one, Peter, we), 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 | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 had | mark |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 one | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 had | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 us | case |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 one | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pocket | det |
| 9 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj | ||
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 12 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 carry | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 carry | punct |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 carry | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 carry | aux |
| 18 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 carry | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 carry | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | one of us | a pocket | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | carry in a quote | could | we | certainty | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in it=Location |
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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