Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 14
“Now I see,” Curly said: “Peter was bringing her to us.”
Who acts: Curly, Peter · What happens: see, say, bring · To what, where: Curly, us · 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 (Curly, Peter), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 see | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 7 | Curly | Curly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 bringing | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bringing | punct |
| 11 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 bringing | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bringing | aux |
| 13 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bringing | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bringing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | Curly | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Curly | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | past · progressive | Peter | Curly | us | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to we=Destination |
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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