Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 93
“They don’t want us to land,” he explained.
Who acts: eyes, us, Peter · What happens: not want, land, explain · To what, where: us · 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 (eyes, us, Peter), 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 want | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 want | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 want | advmod |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 explained | ccomp |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 want | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 land | mark |
| 8 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 want | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 explained | nsubj |
| 12 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want in a quote | present · do-support | eyes = eye | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | land not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | us not said here | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | past | Peter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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