Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 149
“Did you hear them say Peter Pan’s from home?”
Who acts: you, pirates · What happens: hear, say · To what, where: pirates, Peter, home · 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 (you, pirates), 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 | _ | 4 hear | punct |
| 2 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 hear | nsubj |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hear | obj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hear | xcomp |
| 7 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obj |
| 8 | Pan | Pan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Peter | flat |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Peter | case |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | past · do-support | you | pirates = pirate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | pirates = pirate not said here | Peter | home | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent peter=Topic |
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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