Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 111
He spoke long and earnestly, but what it was all about Smee, who was rather stupid, did not know in the least.
Who acts: desire, sigh, Smee · What happens: speak, be, not know · To what, where: least · 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: who acts (desire, sigh, Smee), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spoke | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 earnestly | cc |
| 5 | earnestly | earnestly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 long | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 what | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 what | cc |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 spoke | obl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 Smee | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Smee | cop |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 Smee | advmod |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 Smee | case |
| 13 | Smee | Smee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stupid | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 stupid | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stupid | cop |
| 17 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 18 stupid | advmod |
| 18 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Smee | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 know | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 know | advmod |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Smee | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 least | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 least | det |
| 25 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 know | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | desire | long property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | sigh | about Smee; all property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Smee | stupid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not know | past · do-support | sigh not said here | the least | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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