Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 26
“You must be nice to him,” Wendy impressed on her brothers.
Who acts: You, nice · What happens: be, impress · To what, where: Peter
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, nice), 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 nice | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 nice | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 nice | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 nice | cop |
| 5 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 impressed | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 nice | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 nice | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 nice | punct |
| 10 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 impressed | nsubj |
| 11 | impressed | impress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 brothers | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 impressed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 impressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | must | You | Peter | nice property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | impress | past | nice | on Wendy's brothers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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