Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 121
“That,” explained Curly, “is why we are her servants.”
Who acts: That, we · What happens: explain, be · To what, where: Curly, servants · 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 (That, we), 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 | _ | 5 explained | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 explained | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 That | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 That | punct |
| 5 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Curly | Curly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 explained | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 why | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 why | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 why | cop |
| 10 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 explained | parataxis |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 servants | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 servants | cop |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 servants | nmod:poss |
| 14 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 why | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 explained | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | past | That | Curly | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | why property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | we | Curly's servants | tree rules |
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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