Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 128
“I want Peter Pan, who first gave the brute its taste for me.”
Who acts: Smee, Peter, brute · What happens: want, give, taste · To what, where: Peter, brute
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, Peter, brute), 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 | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 want | obj |
| 5 | Pan | Pan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Peter | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 gave | advmod |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Peter | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brute | det |
| 11 | brute | brute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 taste | nmod:poss |
| 13 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | Smee | Peter | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot peter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | past | Peter | the brute | for Smee; first property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent brute=Recipient taste=Theme for i=Asset | |||
| 3 | taste in a quote | brute | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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