Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 75

They talked of Cinderella, and Tootles was confident that his mother must have been very like her.

Who acts: sound, Tootles, mother · What happens: talk, be

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 (sound, Tootles, mother), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Cinderella	case
4	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 talked	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 confident	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 confident	cc
7	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 confident	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 confident	cop
9	confident	confident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talked	parataxis
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 been	mark
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 been	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 been	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 been	aux
15	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 confident	advcl
16	very	very	ADV	_	18 her	advmod
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 been	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	talk	past	sound	of Cinderella	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Tootles	confident property	tree rules
3	be	must · perfect	Cinderella's mother	like tone	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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