Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 139
“Please, sir,” Peter explained, “a lady lies very ill.”
Who acts: Peter, lady · What happens: explain, lie · 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, lady), 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 | 8 explained | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sir | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sir | punct |
| 7 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 explained | nsubj |
| 8 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lies | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 lies | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lady | det |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lies | nsubj |
| 13 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 explained | conj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 ill | advmod |
| 15 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lies | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 explained | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | past | Peter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lie in a quote | present | a lady | ill property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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