Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 143
“I will put a glass thing in her mouth,” said Slightly, and he made-believe to do it, while Peter waited.
Who acts: I, Peter · What happens: put, say, make, believe, do, wait · To what, where: glass thing, mouth, thing · 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 (I, 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 put | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 6 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thing | compound |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mouth | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | parataxis |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 believe | punct |
| 20 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 made | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 believe | xcomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 do | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 waited | punct |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 waited | mark |
| 26 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 waited | nsubj |
| 27 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in a quote | future | I | a glass thing | lady's mouth | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in mouth=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | slightly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | past | Peter | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | believe | infinitive | Peter not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | wait | past | Peter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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