Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 98
I could have shot him dead.”
What happens: shoot · To what, where: I
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: 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 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 shot | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 shot | aux |
| 4 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shot | obj |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shot | xcomp |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shot | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | could · perfect · passive | I | dead property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination he=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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