Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 122
“I have often,” said Smee, “noticed your strange dread of crocodiles.”
Who acts: Smee, your · What happens: have, say, notice, dread · To what, where: strange dread, crocodiles · 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 (Smee, your), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 have | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Smee | Smee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 noticed | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 noticed | punct |
| 11 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dread | nmod:poss |
| 13 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dread | amod |
| 14 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 noticed | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 crocodiles | case |
| 16 | crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dread | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Smee | often property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Smee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | notice in a quote | past | Smee not said here | your strange dread of crocodiles | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dread=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | dread in a quote | your | crocodiles | nom dread «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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