Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 138
“Yes, my little man,” Slightly anxiously replied, who had chapped knuckles.
Who acts: little man · What happens: reply, chap · To what, where: little man, knuckles
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 (little man), 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 | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 man | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 man | nmod:poss |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 9 | Slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 11 replied | advmod |
| 10 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 11 replied | advmod |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 man | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 chapped | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 chapped | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 chapped | aux |
| 15 | chapped | chap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 man | conj |
| 16 | knuckles | knuckle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 chapped | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle | my little man not said here | anxiously, slightly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | chap | past · perfect | my little man | knuckles | 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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