Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 132
“Ay, ay,” said Slightly at once, and disappeared, scratching his head.
What happens: say, scratch · To what, where: head · 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: 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Ay | ay | INTJ | _ | 4 ay | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ay | punct |
| 4 | ay | ay | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ay | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ay | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 once | case |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 disappeared | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 disappeared | cc |
| 13 | disappeared | disappeared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 scratching | punct |
| 15 | scratching | scratch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scratching | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | slightly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | scratch | gerund | Peter's head | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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