Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 114
“Curly,” said Peter in his most captainy voice, “see that these boys help in the building of the house.”
Who acts: Peter, boys · What happens: say, see, help · To what, where: building · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, boys), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Curly | punct |
| 2 | Curly | curly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Curly | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Curly | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 voice | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 voice | nmod:poss |
| 9 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 voice | amod |
| 10 | captainy | captainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 voice | amod |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Peter | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 help | mark |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 boys | det |
| 17 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 help | nsubj |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | ccomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 building | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 building | det |
| 21 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 help | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 building | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Peter in Peter's most captainy voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | help in a quote | present | this boys | the building of the house | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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