Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 126
“In a way,” said Smee, “it’s sort of a compliment.”
Who acts: Smee, way · What happens: say, sort · To what, where: way, compliment · 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, way), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 way | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 way | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 way | 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 | _ | 13 sort | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 sort | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sort | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 it | case |
| 13 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Smee | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 compliment | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 compliment | det |
| 16 | compliment | compliment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sort | 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 | say speech: assert | past | Smee | a way | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in way=Manner | ||||
| 2 | sort in a quote | way | a compliment | nom sort «cognition 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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