Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 156
“Wendy, sing the kind of house you would like to have.”
Who acts: Wendy, you · What happens: sing, like, have · To what, where: kind
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 (Wendy, you), 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 sing | punct |
| 2 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sing | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wendy | punct |
| 4 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kind | det |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 like | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 like | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 like | aux |
| 11 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sing | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 have | mark |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 like | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sing | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express in a quote | infinitive | Wendy | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | like in a quote | would | you | the kind of house | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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