Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 25
Curly is fourth; he is a pickle, and so often has he had to deliver up his person when Peter said sternly, “Stand forth the one who did this thing,” that now at the command he stands forth automatically whether he has done it or not.
Who acts: Curly, Peter, one, that · What happens: be, have, deliver up, say, stand, do · To what, where: pickle, person, one, thing, command · 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 (Curly, Peter, one, that), 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 | Curly | Curly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fourth | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fourth | cop |
| 3 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 pickle | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pickle | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 pickle | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pickle | det |
| 8 | pickle | pickle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fourth | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 has | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 often | advmod |
| 12 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 has | advmod |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fourth | parataxis |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 has | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 deliver | mark |
| 17 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | xcomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 deliver | compound:prt |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 person | nmod:poss |
| 20 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 deliver | obj |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 said | advmod |
| 22 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 deliver | advcl |
| 24 | sternly | sternly | ADV | _ | 23 said | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Stand | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Stand | punct |
| 27 | Stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 deliver | conj |
| 28 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 27 Stand | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 one | det |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Stand | obj |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 did | nsubj |
| 32 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 one | acl:relcl |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 thing | det |
| 34 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 did | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fourth | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fourth | punct |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 stands | nsubj |
| 38 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 43 stands | advmod |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 command | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 command | det |
| 41 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 stands | obl |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 stands | nsubj |
| 43 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fourth | parataxis |
| 44 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 43 stands | advmod |
| 45 | automatically | automatically | ADV | _ | 43 stands | advmod |
| 46 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 49 done | mark |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 done | nsubj |
| 48 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 done | aux |
| 49 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 43 stands | advcl |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 done | obj |
| 51 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 52 not | cc |
| 52 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 49 done | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fourth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Curly | fourth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Curly | a pickle | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | often property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | past | Curly | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | deliver up | to-infinitive | Curly not said here | Curly's person | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | sternly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | stand in a quote | infinitive | Curly not said here | the one | forth property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | do in a quote | past | the one | this thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 9 | stand | present | that | the command | now | automatically, forth property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at command=Location | ||
| 10 | do | present · perfect | Peter | person | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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