Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 191
“I don’t know,” Nibs said, awestruck, “but it looks so weary, and as it flies it moans, ‘Poor Wendy.’”
Who acts: Nibs, awestruck · What happens: not know, say, look, fly, moan · To what, where: Poor Wendy · 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 (Nibs, awestruck), 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 | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 8 | Nibs | nib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 awestruck | punct |
| 11 | awestruck | awestruck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looks | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 looks | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 looks | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looks | nsubj |
| 16 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 weary | advmod |
| 18 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 looks | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 moans | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 moans | cc |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 flies | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 flies | nsubj |
| 23 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 moans | advcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 moans | nsubj |
| 25 | moans | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 looks | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Wendy | punct |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 Wendy | punct |
| 28 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Wendy | amod |
| 29 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 moans | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 looks | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 looks | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | Nibs = nib | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Nibs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look in a quote | present | awestruck | weary property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | fly in a quote | present | awestruck | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | moan in a quote | present | awestruck | Poor Wendy | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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