Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 19
Tootles, the fairy Tink, who is bent on mischief this night is looking for a tool, and she thinks you are the most easily tricked of the boys. ’
Who acts: Tootles, Tink, boys · What happens: bend, look, think, trick · To what, where: fairy Tink, mischief, 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 (Tootles, Tink, boys), 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 | Tootles | tootle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 looking | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tink | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fairy | det |
| 4 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Tink | compound |
| 5 | Tink | Tink | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tootles | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bent | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 bent | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bent | aux:pass |
| 9 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Tink | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 mischief | case |
| 11 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bent | obl |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 night | det |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bent | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 looking | aux |
| 15 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 tool | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tool | det |
| 18 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looking | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 thinks | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 thinks | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 thinks | nsubj |
| 22 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 looking | advcl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 tricked | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 tricked | aux:pass |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tricked | det |
| 26 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 27 easily | advmod |
| 27 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 28 tricked | advmod |
| 28 | tricked | trick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 thinks | ccomp |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 boys | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 boys | det |
| 31 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 tricked | obl:agent |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 looking | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | present · passive | fairy Tink | mischief | night | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on mischief=Location | |||
| 2 | look | present · progressive | Tootles fairy Tink | for a tool | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for tool=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | Tink | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | trick | present · passive | the boys | you | easily property | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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