Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 151
“If only we knew,” said one, “the kind of house she likes best.”
Who acts: we, sound · What happens: know, say, like · To what, where: one, kind · 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 (we, sound), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 knew | mark |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 knew | advmod |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kind | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 kind | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kind | det |
| 13 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 likes | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kind | nmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 likes | nsubj |
| 17 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 likes | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 likes | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 likes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | like in a quote | present | sound | the kind of house | well property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kind=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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