Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 22
“Do be more polite to him,” Wendy whispered to John, when they were playing “Follow my Leader.”
Who acts: Wendy, John · What happens: be, whisper, play, follow · To what, where: Peter, John, Leader · 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 (Wendy, John), 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 polite | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 polite | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 polite | cop |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 polite | advmod |
| 5 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 whispered | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 polite | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 polite | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 polite | punct |
| 10 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 whispered | nsubj |
| 11 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 John | case |
| 13 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 whispered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 playing | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 playing | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 playing | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 playing | aux |
| 18 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 whispered | parataxis |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Follow | punct |
| 20 | Follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 playing | parataxis |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Leader | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Follow | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 Follow | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Peter | polite property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | Wendy | John | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to john=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | play | past · progressive | John | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | follow in a quote | infinitive | my Leader | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme |
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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