Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 134
“Please, sir,” said Peter, going to him, “are you a doctor?”
Who acts: Peter, you · What happens: say, go, be · To what, where: Peter, doctor · 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, you), 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 | _ | 4 sir | punct |
| 2 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 4 sir | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sir | punct |
| 4 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sir | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sir | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 going | punct |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 going | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 doctor | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 doctor | punct |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 doctor | cop |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 doctor | nsubj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 doctor | det |
| 18 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 going | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 doctor | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | Peter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | you | a doctor | 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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