Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 78
I don’t know what a cheque-book is, but I should just love to give my mother one.”
Who acts: I, cheque book · What happens: not know, be, love, give · To what, where: mother · 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 (I, cheque book), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 know | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 book | det |
| 7 | cheque | cheque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 book | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 cheque | punct |
| 9 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 what | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 love | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 love | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 love | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 love | aux |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 love | advmod |
| 16 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 give | mark |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 love | xcomp |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 mother | flat |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a cheque book | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | love | should | I | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | my mother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=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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