Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 16
“A lady to take care of us at last,” said one of the twins, “and you have killed her!”
What happens: take, say, kill · To what, where: care, last, one, you · 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: 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 | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lady | acl |
| 6 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 take | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 take | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 said | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 twins | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 twins | det |
| 17 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 killed | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 killed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 killed | cc |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 killed | aux |
| 23 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | ccomp |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 killed | obj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 killed | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | care | last | of us | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of we=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | one of the twins | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer she=Result |
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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