Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 199
Tink’s reply rang out: “Peter wants you to shoot the Wendy.”
Who acts: reply, Peter, you, Tink · What happens: ring out, want, shoot, reply · To what, where: you, 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 (reply, Peter, you, Tink), 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 | Tink | Tink | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reply | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Tink | case |
| 3 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rang | nsubj |
| 4 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 rang | compound:prt |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 rang | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wants | punct |
| 8 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 wants | nsubj |
| 9 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rang | parataxis |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 wants | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 shoot | mark |
| 12 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wants | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Wendy | det |
| 14 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 shoot | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wants | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring out | past | Tink's reply | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | Peter | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shoot not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the Wendy | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wendy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reply | Tink | nom reply «communication 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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