Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 132
“Some day,” said Smee, “the clock will run down, and then he’ll get you.”
Who acts: day, clock, Smee · What happens: say, run down, get · To what, where: you · 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 (day, clock, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Smee | Smee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 run | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 run | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 clock | det |
| 11 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 run | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 run | aux |
| 13 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 run | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 get | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 get | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 get | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 get | nsubj |
| 19 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 get | aux |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 run | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 get | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | some day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | run down in a quote | future | the clock | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | future | Smee | you | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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