Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 12
“And we have killed her,” Nibs said hoarsely.
Who acts: killed Nibs · What happens: kill, say · To what, where: we · 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 (killed Nibs), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 killed | cc |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | aux |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Nibs | amod |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 killed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
| 9 | Nibs | nib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | hoarsely | hoarsely | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | present · perfect · passive | we | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer she=Result | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | killed Nibs | hoarsely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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