Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 101
“Shall I after him, Captain,” asked pathetic Smee, “and tickle him with Johnny Corkscrew?”
What happens: ask, tickle · To what, where: pathetic Smee, Smee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 him | punct |
| 2 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 him | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 him | nsubj |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Captain | punct |
| 7 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 him | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Captain | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 him | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | pathetic | pathetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Smee | amod |
| 12 | Smee | Smee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tickle | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 tickle | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tickle | cc |
| 16 | tickle | tickle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tickle | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 Corkscrew | case |
| 19 | Johnny | Johnny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Corkscrew | compound |
| 20 | Corkscrew | Corkscrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 tickle | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 tickle | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 tickle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | pathetic Smee | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent smee=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tickle in a quote | infinitive | Smee | with Johnny Corkscrew | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer with corkscrew=Instrument |
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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