Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 129

“Ay,” said Slightly, “that is how a house is built; it all comes back to me.”

Who acts: that, house · What happens: say, be, build, come back · To what, where: house, me · 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, house), 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 said	punct
2	Ay	ay	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ay	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ay	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Slightly	slightly	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 built	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 built	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 how	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 how	cop
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 built	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 built	nsubj:pass
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 built	aux:pass
15	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 comes	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 comes	nsubj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 it	det
19	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 comes	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 comes	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past				slightly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	that			how property	tree rules
3	build in a quote	present · passive		a house			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	come back in a quote	present	house		me		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location

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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